It is no longer busy in the onion trade. That was the case before and that has not changed now. An important part of the sorters are busy with maintenance or are on vacation. And although there is little supply, the demand is not enough either. In that respect, there is more life in the second-year onion set trade.
There are hardly any growers who still have onions to buy. To the extent that anything is still offered, it is more likely to be held by speculators. The asking price is somewhere between €90 to €100. However, sorters are hardly interested in this. €80 to €85 is the max for most if they are still buyers at all. Some sellers are betting that there may be another gap in the coming weeks and that sorters with permanent obligations will still come. That is possible, but the sorters with a lot of permanent work have more irons in the fire. In addition to our own stock of Dutch onions, imported onions are often also stored so that we at least have some on hand.
High expectations
There is more activity in the onion sets. In one week, mainly due to warm and dry weather, the prices quoted in the weather reports by growers and traders have increased by approximately €5 to €25 to €30, with or without participation or growth. That is quite an obligation that the buyer makes for onions that will not be harvested for another month. "Some people can be fooled very quickly," says one person, while another looks at the almost over season in which you had to keep participating to stay in the race. In any case, the gap with sowing onions is considerable. Delivery from land is said to cost around €20 or slightly more. If you, as a buyer, are unlucky enough that the plant and the sowing onions get in each other's way, you will end up with overpriced onion sets that are more difficult to get rid of.
De DCA quotation Bale price of Onions takes another step up this week. As stated earlier, there is still only limited trade and that makes it difficult to give a good reflection of what is happening on the market. There are hardly any triplets left. The prices for medium, coarse and supers have converged to an average of around €100. Sorters try to charge more, but then buyers quickly drop out in favor of the new onions from New Zealand, even though they have sometimes been better.