File | Potato harvest 2025

France will lose more than 200.000 tons of potatoes this week, according to a new estimate from the Agreste statistics office of the French Ministry of Agriculture.

Statistics agency StatBel has issued a preliminary estimate of a smaller potato harvest than the Belgian potato organizations Viaverda and Fiwap. However, the difference compared to last year is the same in both estimates: an increase of 650.000 tons.

For the first time this season, PotatoNL has listed a Category 1 price. At an average of €2,75 per 100 kilos, it's nothing to write home about, but it's not the lowest price ever. Innovator ensures the price is slightly higher. Niels van der Boom, market specialist at DCA Market Intelligence, discusses this in more detail.

A staggering 40% of Flemish potato growers are required to deliver part of their potatoes directly from the field this season. The harvested volume simply doesn't fit in storage. This is causing harvesting delays. Meanwhile, concerns are mounting about the quality of the harvested batches.

An advance payment for pool potatoes of the smallest possible amount above zero euros, or a bill exceeding €1.000 in transport costs for a rejected shipment of potatoes in France. These are issues that potato growers are currently facing.

The latest figures from the JRC Mars Bulletin confirm the robust potato harvests in Northwest Europe. Yields are particularly above average in Belgium and France. This is in addition to the already exceptionally large acreage in these countries.

In several potato storage facilities, the first tubers are already sprouting, sometimes less than two weeks after being stored. This is exceptionally early and indicates that the potatoes are fully awake. Sprouts measuring 1 to 3 millimeters are already visible in several storage facilities, something that "normally" doesn't occur until around December.

The largest area devoted to ware potatoes in over 25 years has also produced a record number of potatoes. Although growth wasn't strong everywhere in the Netherlands, the figures speak for themselves. This is evident from the preliminary harvest estimate from Statistics Netherlands (CBS).