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What will the potato price of 2018 harvest do?

June 13, 2018 - Anne Jan Doorn - 36 comments

The prices for the potatoes from the 2017 harvest have not turned out to be what was expected. The hope is that the potatoes from harvest 2018 will be paid better. What do you expect from the price?

There are several factors that support this hope. The start of the season, especially in the southwest and northeast of the country, not what was expected of it. The acreage in Europe also appears to be decreasing slightly (for example in Poland and Belgium† This while the fries industry continues keeps growing.

It's time to gauge expectations for the coming potato season. What is your expectation of the average potato price for the 2018 harvest?

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Anne-Jan Doorn

Anne Jan Doorn is an arable expert at Boerenbusiness. He writes about the various arable farming markets and also focuses on the land and energy market.

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36 comments
Anonymous June 13, 2018
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Potatoes are no longer worth growing. They cost a fortune and the expenses are not small and you only get 2 cents for them. To stop everyone growing potatoes is to see how much respect people get for the farmers.
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drogba June 13, 2018
where can you get 2 euros for potatoes?
jpk June 13, 2018
If the harvest is not yet known from ned and eur, it is pointless to speculate about price
jpk June 13, 2018
If the harvest figures are not yet known in the Netherlands and Europe, it is lost time to speculate about prices
grow June 13, 2018
look at acreage and look at the amount of old potatoes that will remain
Narcos June 13, 2018
There was just too much growth last season. Rain in August sucks for supply. From August 1, a new round with new opportunities will start. There is plenty of sales, but not yet voting.
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can not June 14, 2018
the button 30 and higher is not included.
they are going to be very expensive this year.

Rain will not fall until September!

signed, the weather strategist
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still have old ones June 14, 2018
what a drama with the old one, think I only fill in zero, nothing will come of it
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laapc June 15, 2018
Keep calm in 4 weeks they are fighting for well-baked potatoes.
Dirk Jan June 16, 2018
Please dispose of the old potatoes as soon as possible. Otherwise they will end up in the waters of the new potatoes. And then you may have 2 wrong harvests?
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marquis June 17, 2018
Dirk Jan wrote:
Please dispose of the old potatoes as soon as possible. Otherwise they will end up in the waters of the new potatoes. And then you may have 2 wrong harvests?


The part I have on contract with FF was up for week 20. We are now starting week 25, and they are still there!! So the free ones are still there!
harm June 17, 2018
close with the old take your loss .and immediately start quickly through the 20 euros with the early and medium-early empty that market
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Walter of S. June 17, 2018
marquis wrote:
Dirk Jan wrote:
Please dispose of the old potatoes as soon as possible. Otherwise they will end up in the waters of the new potatoes. And then you may have 2 wrong harvests?


The part I have on contract with FF was up for week 20. We are now starting week 25, and they are still there!! So the free ones are still there!


Do not worry. We pay an extra storage fee and we also charge the free ones without transport costs.
clay farmer June 17, 2018
Dirk Jan wrote:
Please dispose of the old potatoes as soon as possible. Otherwise they will end up in the waters of the new potatoes. And then you may have 2 wrong harvests?


Easy to talk about when you have already emptied the shed yourself.
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Dirk Jan June 17, 2018
marquis wrote:
Dirk Jan wrote:
Please dispose of the old potatoes as soon as possible. Otherwise they will end up in the waters of the new potatoes. And then you may have 2 wrong harvests?


The part I have on contract with FF was up for week 20. We are now starting week 25, and they are still there!! So the free ones are still there!


You certainly made a contract for them for 2018.
You allow yourself to be used by them.
Week 19 should have already called you when they come to collect and what you get for the over kg, risk lies with them after week 21 and the price of the free is or the forward price at that time for June delivery or if the daily price is higher pay that price, they should come and get them. Now they are abusing you and the whole free trade is being dragged into the doldrums.
SUCCESS MARQUIS!!!!
peta June 17, 2018
@ Dirkjan; Well described, growers let their so-called chain partners wipe the floor! Sad that they are so busy working that they almost forget about running and taking care of their own business!
Narcos June 17, 2018
@dirk-Jan @petatje; That's how it is, growers allow themselves to be used by the French fries cartel for cheap raw materials. Fixed poverty for many, small margins for some. Quality will again not be rewarded, many more will die.
Hans 4 August 2018
Harvested all early potatoes today, what a drama, at least 50% less yield and 50% potatoes. So the price will definitely go up.
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Gerrit 4 August 2018
In which region Hans. In Flanders, the early ones also move quickly. Disappointing returns too!
seedy 4 August 2018
futures market remains at around 30 cents, because it is not disappointing everywhere.
Groningen 4 August 2018
Siepel, what's up with that?
they 4 August 2018
see results crop tour, Hank eg Hoekse Waard Northern France
Groningen 4 August 2018
All cheating!!! Northern France is very bad, I have been myself!!
Grower 4 August 2018
We have now harvested 208 ha of early potatoes and delivered only 4200 tons net. I am 700 tons short to fulfill my contracts. Mainly northern France, western and eastern Flanders. Bad here. I have never experienced this. Expensive land rented, .... my late harvest will (have to) make up for a lot.
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farm insider 5 August 2018
Teler wrote:
We have now harvested 208 ha of early potatoes and delivered only 4200 tons net. I am 700 tons short to fulfill my contracts. Mainly northern France, western and eastern Flanders. Bad here. I have never experienced this. Expensive land rented, .... my late harvest will (have to) make up for a lot.

I'm afraid it won't work either. The monsters Fontane and Innovator from that region that I saw were very distressing.
Tielt 5 August 2018
Teler wrote:
We have now harvested 208 ha of early potatoes and delivered only 4200 tons net. I am 700 tons short to fulfill my contracts. Mainly northern France, western and eastern Flanders. Bad here. I have never experienced this. Expensive land rented, .... my late harvest will (have to) make up for a lot.


and last year it was also not a success with you, what do your sponsors think of that? efkens go to the notary??
Lowest harvest ever 5 August 2018
Seen some test rooting, think the factories are in crisis this weekend instead of free and on the terrace
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Innovator 5 August 2018
Tielt wrote:
Teler wrote:
We have now harvested 208 ha of early potatoes and delivered only 4200 tons net. I am 700 tons short to fulfill my contracts. Mainly northern France, western and eastern Flanders. Bad here. I have never experienced this. Expensive land rented, .... my late harvest will (have to) make up for a lot.


and last year it was also not a success with you, what do your sponsors think of that? efkens go to the notary??

What kind of reaction is that.
Grower reports his findings and you should lecture him about what you think he has done wrong and be amused by it.
The grower's findings indicate the situation how low the yield is
Few farmers are harvesting so this is valuable information for us
gerard 5 August 2018
something is very wrong in the potato world. we as growers are in rope day and night no more private life / diesel costs that scare you kg,s are sad and then the factories and industry all arrive with the same agreed price very sad this cartel formation should be checked become too disgusting for words give the grower a fair price and a plus for his more work . otherwise this won't attract anyone... you break open the contracts to the retail companies and show that not everything is self-evident and that nature is in charge, maybe there will be some awareness in the minds of the bourgeoisie again
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not 5 August 2018
always that chain bullshit it is of no use to us at all or yes we are / are chained and but obediently fill in your vvv otherwise we don't have to be your nature now people this is your escape method if you have signed a contract good luck
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yay 5 August 2018
Walter van S. wrote:
marquis wrote:
Dirk Jan wrote:
Please dispose of the old potatoes as soon as possible. Otherwise they will end up in the waters of the new potatoes. And then you may have 2 wrong harvests?


The part I have on contract with FF was up for week 20. We are now starting week 25, and they are still there!! So the free ones are still there!


Do not worry. We pay an extra storage fee and we also charge the free ones without transport costs.

Terrible Sun 1 was also raised without work and his school was paid for on contracts. Let him play hide and seek in Somalia
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yay 5 August 2018
I will pay for the ticket for him, if he stays there for 2 weeks I will also pay for the return journey for him. I also know of other places where he can play hide and seek. so walter van S can also choose where he wants to go farmer and bussines know my address and telephone number. If he goes this month, I'm still going.
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nice 5 August 2018
can really be tanzania everywhere
joker 5 August 2018
gerard wrote:
something is very wrong in the potato world. we as growers are in rope day and night no more private life / diesel costs that scare you kg,s are sad and then the factories and industry all arrive with the same agreed price very sad this cartel formation should be checked become too disgusting for words give the grower a fair price and a plus for his more work . otherwise this won't attract anyone... you break open the contracts to the retail companies and show that not everything is self-evident and that nature is in charge, maybe there will be some awareness in the minds of the bourgeoisie again


All factories have a crop failure clause in their contracts that they have applied for several years. In 1998 it was used very frequently and there were considerable surcharges on the agreed contract prices. This has simply come about through the cooperation of the factories in the form of the VAVI.

Let the stand organizations take a look at that and as an individual farmer I think there is also a chance that a court is sensitive to this.

Many people are talking and talking again, now action.......

And finally: contract cultivation has these kinds of restrictions that will become even more important in the future, think of that before you agree something with buyers because their strength is the possession of the business what your poverty is.
Tielt 6 August 2018
Innovator wrote:
Tielt wrote:
Teler wrote:
We have now harvested 208 ha of early potatoes and delivered only 4200 tons net. I am 700 tons short to fulfill my contracts. Mainly northern France, western and eastern Flanders. Bad here. I have never experienced this. Expensive land rented, .... my late harvest will (have to) make up for a lot.


and last year it was also not a success with you, what do your sponsors think of that? efkens go to the notary??

What kind of reaction is that.
Grower reports his findings and you should lecture him about what you think he has done wrong and be amused by it.
The grower's findings indicate the situation how low the yield is
Few farmers are harvesting so this is valuable information for us



I don't lecture him.
all that matters to industry and commerce is profit, big profit, more profit in even less time, at the expense of benevolent hard-working entrepreneurs like the one above.
the industry will not let him fall, certainly not, but keep it in the pliers.. without him feeling it
loom 6 August 2018
dear Tielt, my early 208 hectares are a financial drama. but I hope/suspect that my 240 ha late free harvest makes up for this.
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chips 7 August 2018
Tielt wrote:
Innovator wrote:
Tielt wrote:


and last year it was also not a success with you, what do your sponsors think of that? efkens go to the notary??

What kind of reaction is that.
Grower reports his findings and you should lecture him about what you think he has done wrong and be amused by it.
The grower's findings indicate the situation how low the yield is
Few farmers are harvesting so this is valuable information for us



I don't lecture him.
all that matters to industry and commerce is profit, big profit, more profit in even less time, at the expense of benevolent hard-working entrepreneurs like the one above.
the industry will not let him fall, certainly not, but keep it in the pliers.. without him feeling it

I have been saying for 3 years; the way the factories now treat their suppliers to the royal family, they will have to grow their own potatoes. Only J. Clareb*ot has listened.
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