Belgium
Fiwap/PCA market message:
Industrial varieties: General price, 35 mm+, min 60% 50 mm+, min 360 g/5kg of EPS, bulk, friable, selling price, excluding VAT, direct delivery:
2017 harvest: the last transactions are made in context of a very limited supply (depleted stocks), industrial demand is still active to offset the lack of early crops, and the strong market observed the situation in the field:
Fontane: €15,00 – €17,00/a;
Bintje: €7,00 – €10,00/a;
Challenger: €10,00 - €15,00/a
2018 harvest: Early belgian crops: €20,00 – €25,00/a, depending on destination, quality, and amount. Higher prices are reported for exceptional lots. The supply is almost zero, given the very low yields (which are regularly insufficient to honour the contracts). Plantation grubbings are in progress primarily on the lightest plots, but with a lot of soil in the skips (> 30%). Yields are estimated at about 20t/ha in dry plots, and above 30t/ha in irrigated plots.
European physical markets
Summary of rates (source: NEPG):
Price in auctions/auction of Roeselare (source: REO via PCA): July 30:
Weighted price (red and white) for handpicked production: €0,30/kg (€30,00/a) excluding VAT. Supply: 20 tons.
Bintje plant: Strong price rise, following worries about the 2018 production affected by the drought. All prices subject to change, inquire every day! Dutch plant, class A, made March 2019, per 5 tons, in bags, excl. VAT:
Size 28 - 35 mm : around €90,00/a
Size 35 – 45 mm : around €60,00/a
Future market
EEX in Leipzig (€/a) Bintje, Agria and various related for conversion, 40 mm+, min 60 % 50 mm +:
Netherlands
Any remaining potatoes from the 2017 harvest are processed by factories lacking raw materials, regardless of variety and quality. This week’s supply progressively consists of early crops, which should boost the trade. Last week's prices were between €18.00 and €20.00/a, but the upward trend is obvious.
PotatoNL course: also available on www.potatonl.com
VTA course (Verenigde Telers Akkerbouw)
Germany
*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 29: €10,97/a (+0,7 %).
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