This onion season is as good as over. High prices were paid for the last onions, but the volumes that still find a buyer have become smaller and smaller. People are now eagerly awaiting the new season. The first plot of winter onions has already been harvested in Zeeland.
There are still a few packers who are still turning onions, but they do that mainly with what is still available or has been secured. There are also hardly any free onions and those that are there must be of very good quality according to an insider to be sold now. This also depends on how fast the harvest is going now. The first plot has been harvested in Zeeland and it is expected that it will really get going at the beginning of July and then the planting onions will continue.
No one wants to anticipate what the new onions will do in price, and whether prices will take another step. "We are simply empty and there will be demand", is the message. However, some caution is also required. The bale price ended quite high this season. According to an insider, the last onions were even 'perhaps sold for €78' last week. It is also still questionable what the export to Africa will do.
The prices of the different sizes have crept towards each other. The DCA Bale Price Onions remains at the same level this week as last week, but with the remark that there is currently very little trade and we are just between the old and new season.
Read here is the explanation from DCA Market Intelligence on the new quotations.