Belgium
Fiwap/PCA market message:
Early industrial varieties: General price, 35 mm+, min 60% 50 mm+, min 360 g/5kg of EPS, bulk, friable, selling price, excluding VAT, direct delivery: around €25,00/a, stable market. Supply remains very limited due to low yields. The demand is active (manufacturers, preparers, peelers).
First transactions are also observed in conservable varieties (Bintje, Fontane) in delivery straight from the field.
European physical markets
Summary of rates (source: NEPG):
Price in auctions/auction of Roeselare (source: REO via PCA): August 13:
Weighted price (red and white) for handpicked production: €0,74/kg (€74,00/a) excluding VAT. Supply: 10 tons.
Future market
EEX in Leipzig (€/a) Bintje, Agria and various related for conversion, 40 mm+, min 60 % 50 mm +:
Netherlands
Markets somewhat stabilised after the return of rains, which tended to improve the situation in the field. Sustained prices between €25.00 and €30.00/a. Opinions differ as to the impact of the rains: they came back too late for many non-irrigated plots, with explosive and disturbing rejection/regrowth. On the other hand, irrigated plots benefited more.
Transition to new crops remains problematic for factories; early deliveries are postponed as much as possible through the use of alternative varieties, for which prices of €25.00 to €28.00 €/a are proposed straight out of the field. Export in fresh varieties hasn’t started yet.
Germany
On the fresh market (Rhineland), prices remained unchanged for firm pulp at €28.00/a and €26.00/a for soft pulp as of August 17. For early firm pulp ones sold on the farm (Rhineland), prices ranged between €11.00 and €12.00/q per bag of 25 kg (unchanged). The market is strong for early potatoes for the industry; By the beginning of August, the industry was still working with older potatoes, and early shipments were falling behind. The trade/industry has adapted its delivery standards: they will now take 35 mm + instead of 40 mm +. Première/Amora €26.00/a and Zorba €27.00/a. Organic native early crops: data unavailable.
*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 combined) week 32: €33.11/a.
All markets remain strong, following the reduced and reluctant supply. Harvesting progressed last week, but at a slow pace, with yields 10 to 15% lower than normal in firm pulp varieties (average taken on irrigated and non-irrigated plots). We still find old harvest in the distribution, at prices ever rising. The wholesale markets are not very lively: due to a lack of considerable size, producers aren’t sellers, and expect to see yields increase. For the industry, prices rose again to reach €31,00 to €38,00/a in half early varieties, even up to €40,00/a in Maris Piper and Agria. The first average listing of free markets this season came out at € 29.70/a, or €5.34/a higher than the historical record of August 2012.
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