Pretty stiff and little trade, that's how the carrot market can be described. Growers are stuck in the saddle and keep the options to sell the carrots now or to drive them in the refrigerator. The sales are not of such a nature that flushers have to buy more at the moment.
The carrot harvest is already quite advanced. Growers who still have carrots in the ground will not be warm or cold from the night frost that is predicted next weekend. A degree of frost is no problem and a prolonged cold period is not predicted. Given the high storage costs, several traders expect that deliveries from land will continue for a long time as long as it does not really freeze. The demand for Dutch carrots for export is disappointing. Something is happening for overseas destinations, but it is not lasting. Eastern Europe has a very limited market for Dutch products. There they have plenty of supply of their own carrots and buyers find Dutch carrots too expensive compared to local products. Some traders think that we have to drop the price considerably to get trade going to Eastern Europe going, while others think that the price is inferior and that we are mainly affected by the local supply in, for example, Poland or the Czech Republic.
little trade
The DCA quotation for b-carrot this week is €18 per 100 kilos. This makes the price the same as last week alone. Back then, most trade was done at or near the top of the quote, which is €20 per 100 kilos. This week, trading is more towards the bottom of the quotation, as far as there is any trading. Because there is relatively little demand and only limited supply - many carrots that are still attached already have an owner - it is difficult to give a good reflection of the market in the quotation. The DCA quotation for c-peen has taken a small step back to €21 per 100 kilos.
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