The harvest of the storage carrots is slowly starting. In the trade it remains a bit quiet. The export is not yet taking off, especially Africa is hardly on the market.
The first cuttings and rounds on the carrot plots are being harvested. The conditions are good and everyone is still a bit stuck with what happened last year in the back of their minds. According to some insiders, it is now even becoming a bit dry to harvest. The yields are still good. Some flushers are still wary of endlessly extending and postponing the harvest. The gist is that when the carrot is ready and the conditions are good, you have to observe it.
Little commotion
Trade on the farm is fairly stable. There is not a lot of supply, but on the other hand, the demand is also less than in other years. It happens more often that Eastern Europe has enough of its own carrots around this time. The big absentee is Africa. Normally more can go there. Admittedly, that is not a market that every flusher can handle or is equally happy with, but a certain number of containers that way always causes some commotion. That is what is lacking now.
The DCA quotation for b-carrots has remained the same this week at €14 to €15 per 100 kilos. Some washers are offering less, but growers are not going along with that. In c-carrots, the upper end of the quotation has been adjusted back to €16 per 100 kilos.
Read here is the explanation from DCA Market Intelligence on the new quotations.