Belgium
Fiwap/PCA market message:
Industrial varieties: Due to persistent drought the mood of the market changed this week; several industrial buyers are once again interested in Fontane’s or even Bintje's latest fryable batches, but without offering a concrete price. The supply is reluctant, and very few transactions are reported or recorded. The market is keeps evolving, so keep checking for daily updates! General price, 35 mm+, min 60% 50 mm+, min 360 g/5kg of EPS, bulk, friable, selling price, excluding VAT, direct delivery:
Fontane: 5,00 – 8,00 €/a. These prices are for known trades in recent days, but the market is closed, and prices are rising: so keep checking for daily updates!
Bintje: Around 1,00 €/a, closed market for the last fryable lots.
Challenger: Unavailable due to lack of transactions.
European physical markets
Summary of rates (source: NEPG):
Price in auctions/auction of Roeselare (source: REO via PCA): July 02:
Weighted price (red and white) for handpicked production: 0,26 €/kg (26,00 €/a) excluding VAT. Supply: 38 tons.
Future market
EEX in Leipzig (€/a) Bintje, Agria and various related for conversion, 40 mm+, min 60 % 50 mm +:
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The Netherlands
PotatoNL course: also available on www.potatonl.com
VTA course (Verenigde Telers Akkerbouw)
Germany
As of June 29, the price for early firm pulp potatoes in Rhineland ranges between €13 and € 14.00/a (- € 1) on the fresh market. In potatoes for the industry (fries), courses stabilised at 4.00 €/a. The peelers and processors still have old ones at a good price, while the first early potatoes suitable for the industry will be available at the end of the week and the beginning of next week.
Indigenous early potatoes: early potatoes at 44.91 €/a (27.95 €/a last year, at the same date).
Although there are still Israeli as well as Spanish products present on the market, and although the native supply is on the rise, the good demand of the big retailers - who want indigenous potatoes with skins - allows the producer prices to remain high, unlike what happened last year around the same time. In "advanced" areas in Lower Saxony, there have already been 9 frequent winder passages. Drought persists, and some begin to worry about mid-early and late potatoes.
Organic indigenous early potatoes: after sales on the farm and in organic stores, the first indigenous organic potatoes (from the Palatinate) arrived in supermarkets. Prices are between 77 and 83,00 €/a. First listing of an association of organic early growers in the Palatinate at 72.00 €/a.
*you will have to deduct €1,00/a from these prices in their starting fields in the table above for sorting fees!!
Great Britain
Average producer price (all markets) week 25: 11,11 €/a.
In fresh markets, the availability of old crops remains important, and contributes to a downward pressure on prices for medium and low grades. The supply of new crops is increasing, in the face of still limited demand. The strongest interest comes from the peeling sector. The industry remains absent from the market, but prices nevertheless tend to stabilise between 6.80 and 10.00 €/a in Maris Piper, Challenger, or fryable Markies, and starts between 3.40 and 4.50 €/a in less specific varieties. In the field, the indication of drought is increasing, and crops are in obvious stress. In the East, the irrigation is running at its maximum, and first observations show a good tuberisation for the first planted, less for the later planted, with attacks of common scabs. In the west, crops are lagging behind, with its development (growth) being inhibited by drought.
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