The supply of carrots is certainly not enough, to put it mildly. Where last year the question was how do we get rid of the carrot before the new one arrives, can we now spread the current stock to save it until the new harvest?
The demand for carrots from Eastern Europe has not changed significantly. Actually the entire export channel is quiet. Yet the mood on the carrot market is changing and that has everything to do with the stock position. Several flushers have been cautious about buying and holding on to inventory in recent months and are now starting to get there a bit. Due to a limited supply, the prices of rinsed products are on the rise. However, it is hardly possible to buy additional field crops at the farm, simply because there is already a destination for most carrots. Around Easter, a relatively large amount of carrots, which were actually purchased too expensively at the time, were rinsed. Now several flushers are quickly running out of work stock and could get by with box prices of around €375 to €400, but there is almost nothing left to get.
little trade
This week it is again difficult to come up with a price that does justice to what is happening on the market. Only a limited amount of business is done and the price differences in what is done are very large. Amounts of around €400 per box with a minimum of 600 kilos seem fairly representative. Some sellers ask €500 per box, but insiders call that too high, although it is certainly not excluded that the market can make another step. The DCA Quotation for b-carrot has taken a step up and amounts to an average of €64 per 100 kilos. C-peen has also increased to an average of €68 per 100 kilos.