Reino Unido: Potatoes up £50 per ton on the year
As winter nears, demand for potatoes normally rises. Some packers are still using crop from 2021, which is helping to clear out any backlog, but some growers are concerned that quality might dip with these 12-month old potatoes.
One English grower group is believed to still have 4000t still in storage which is dampening demand for new crop. The cost of old crop is being traded between £80/t and £120/t. Buyers are estimating the 2022 yield will be smaller, so they don’t want to waste any potatoes.
Top quality table potatoes can command over £230/t, whilst the bulk of the UK crop will be traded for between £190 to £250/t depending on variety and quality. This is typically around £50/t more than farmers were getting paid in 2021 and it doesn’t look to be jumping up quickly, with the futures price for April next year at around £247/t.
Alas, the cost of production has risen by some 30% to over £6000 per hectare, which is a faster rise than the farmgate. The cost and risk in the potato market will make many farmers consider carefully the area planted, with lower costs and less risk being predicted for fields sown in cereals.
Source: thescottishfarmer.co.uk
Fuente: https://www.freshplaza.com/latin-america/article/9468380/uk-potatoes-up-ps50-per-ton-on-the-year/
