Niels van der Boom, Jurphaas Lugtenburg and Jesse Torringa, the arable farming market specialists from DCA Market Intelligence, discuss the latest state of affairs with presenter Eric de Lijster. "A lot of money will be made with a shovel this year," says Torringa, who has spent many hours in the field at home on their arable farm in Groningen to save the seed potatoes from drowning.
The coming weeks and months of the growing season will also demand a lot from the growers' craftsmanship. The first estimates of expected yield loss that are trickling in are discussed. And it is not only doom and gloom in the Netherlands. In countries such as Belgium and Germany there are also large backlogs in planting potatoes or plots are flooded due to downpours or floods.
Naturally, Van der Boom, Lugtenburg and Torringa also discuss the situation in onions and grains, as well as all (expected) market developments.