Rising costs require higher potato prices in Germany

Hans-Wilhelm Giere, chairman of the Federal Association of German Starch Potato Producers (BVS) calls for a higher price for starch potatoes. “Significant increases in costs for operating resources on the one hand and stable or even falling payment prices due to increasing processing costs at our contractual partners for potatoes on the other; that doesn't fit if starch potatoes are to be produced tomorrow ", he emphasized at the association's annual meeting at the end of August in Weichering, Bavaria. The starch potatoes only retain their excellence and thus a permanent place in the crop rotation if they are profitable the possibilities are used at all levels to close the cost-income gap. " According to Giere, inflation runs through all areas, whether for energy, fuel, fertilizer or crop protection. Technology and logistics are also affected, even the implementation of already planned construction projects. “Certainly each of us farmers is challenged to cut costs and produce ...