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Comment: Demand remains buoyant, as more new-season crop comes on to supermarket shelves. Once again, harvesting conditions remain very difficult.
Even traditionally drier fields are proving a challenge to harvest this week. The lifting of the remaining Queen crops is much slower in some parts of the country because of this. Lifting of new-season Kerr Pinks has commenced this week and prices reported from growers are in the region of €6.50 in 10kg bags.
In the UK, better weather this week has allowed growers to continue to lift and many have reported they’ll start burning crops off in the coming weeks in preparation for main crop lifting. There is also a slight increase in demand across all sectors as schools return.
In France, Belgium and Holland, yields are predicted to be average, but crops are senescing quickly. Tuber count is lower than average and dry matters are high to very high. Demand from processors in northern Europe and Germany could potentially be one million tonnes lower than last year – due to the pandemic.
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