The carrot trade is only starting slowly this season. Several flushers are still closed for maintenance and/or summer break. Companies that do operate have largely covered themselves with contracts and are hardly in the market for free carrots.
Due to the relatively good prices for early carrots and moderate potato prices last year, more hectares of early carrots have been sown. The demand for carrots is just not showing the same growth. In addition, the growing season has been quite favorable so far, with the exception of local flooding. Although it was a cold spring, due to sufficient rainfall in the period after sowing, the early carrots are generally in good condition.
A wide offer
It is therefore expected that there will be a wide supply of field carrots in the coming weeks. Especially for some free plots in Limburg, time is running out to find a buyer before the large bulk from the rest of the Netherlands comes onto the market.
Prices for the new carrot are still difficult to give. As previously reported, the processors operate on contract carrots and there is little free trade. The flushers with a strong stock position have an interest in not lowering prices (too far). Due to the limited number of transactions, we are postponing the start of the DCA Carrot Listing for the new season for another week.