Poor weather is likley to hamper the remainder of the potato harvest.
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Comment: The return of wet weather conditions meant liftings failed to progress over the last week. Many growers indicate that 10% of their crops remain to be harvested. For some individual cases, 30-40% of crops remain to be harvested, mainly in the Dublin-Louth region.
With clearer weather in the UK last week, growers made a final attempt to get crops out of the ground. Most freshly lifted crops are going straight to market. Crops remaining in the ground will most likely remain there until next spring. One of the main concerns for crops remaining in the ground is that fry colour will be affected and a proportion of the crop may be unusable. Best-quality crop supplies are continuing to demand a premium price.
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In Europe, markets were largely supplied from the final liftings off fields and from stocks not suitable for longer storage for the past month. The ready availability held the prices steady.
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Comment: The return of wet weather conditions meant liftings failed to progress over the last week. Many growers indicate that 10% of their crops remain to be harvested. For some individual cases, 30-40% of crops remain to be harvested, mainly in the Dublin-Louth region.
With clearer weather in the UK last week, growers made a final attempt to get crops out of the ground. Most freshly lifted crops are going straight to market. Crops remaining in the ground will most likely remain there until next spring. One of the main concerns for crops remaining in the ground is that fry colour will be affected and a proportion of the crop may be unusable. Best-quality crop supplies are continuing to demand a premium price.
In Europe, markets were largely supplied from the final liftings off fields and from stocks not suitable for longer storage for the past month. The ready availability held the prices steady.
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