Drought from record year 1976 comes into view

I also heard this story last season, what is old harvest worth now?

Growers are making the big mistake of ruining the market themselves! Conclude contracts for prices that do not cover costs and then also with the obligation that the excess kilos are GIVEN! It must be immediately large and a lot with a lot of financing, so much so that one cannot bear any market risk! Literally SLAVE and total dependence on own megalomania!
Growing freely with hedging on the futures market at the right moments resulted in much higher yields. Those who signed last season at 17 (term has been at 20!) are laughing their asses off! Then why draw such a CERTAIN LOSS scrap? Even now it is possible to hedge on considerably more money than contract prices via the futures market!!!

If the weather forecaster/BB has an interest in a higher futures market, it is served by mentioning 1976 in passing.
But every year is different and the market situation, with a much larger growing area on the one hand and a much larger processing industry on the other, is so much different now than it was then.

@Petatje 'Even now it is possible to hedge via the futures market on considerably more money than contract prices!!!' .... that is already the first blow for the receiving contracting party.

Dear Peter 34, I'm not talking about click contracts, and it doesn't matter who the buyer is in the market. If the processors are going to make money here, it's because the market gets even higher. And no hassle with giving over barrels for the wish listing of the pact!

Hope it doesn't rain before September
That is the best for all arable farmers in the short and long term

Say petateke 17 is the contract price, that is far too little you think I would just wait until it is above 25 the tm otherwise you are much too low

There are no contacts for April 17

Will be below the 2 driest years for the next 5 weeks. Just look at the knmi, 1976 is still a long way off.

Who is talking about April piet and by the way the TM is net sales at 15 and a bit on April and net you do not come on June either and on contract in June.

Great isn't it
You are happy with your contract and I am happy that I always have everything free
It's just a shame that the market is broken because of the contracts / pools and potatoes supplied

Am I writing on April 17 Vicky? Reading is hard

And free cultivation is a free choice, which is important that you have to keep up with the times.

How do you keep up with the times? I don't have to blindly follow other growers if there is nothing extra to earn there?
Furthermore, dear Einstein, part of entrepreneurship is that you delve into the various marketing options. I can highly recommend a futures market course.

If the farmers can't contain themselves with growing too much, it will be nothing for both the free and contract growers. In this way, the industry retains control. Seed potatoes follow the same path. The farmers are left empty-handed, worn out machines and poor soil, while the market is growing.

Dear fries, I assume you have followed that course, so tell me what I will have left over if I sell now on April 2019 for the current price of 17,10

For the rest I completely agree with old farmer we grow too many beepers, and I would like to grow everything freely, but with the current oversupply, contract is the way to survive in my opinion.

Is something in it
This is because the complete harvest is given away prematurely
I grow for the supermarket and grow early, I no longer have any beepers in mid-August
Last year an average of 8000 per ha

Growing for the supermarket and freeing everything that is new to me, those supermarkets want to record everything, don't I or am I wrong?

Purchase agreements have been made
But you don't have to believe me

Well then you don't do your name justice if you don't understand that

There is a ? Behind so it's a dumb question.