The potato harvest in Austria is going well, but there are many quality problems

The situation of the Austrian table potato market has hardly changed in the previous weeks. Harvesting operations are already well underway in all federal states. Traders' warehouses are accordingly more and more full, although potatoes are still delivered to the storage areas by farmers. Despite all this, they do not experience supply pressure in the neighboring country. There are still many quality problems, which will probably require a high level of selection of stored food in the coming period. As is traditionally the case at this time of year, retailer sales are manageable. On the one hand, it seems that consumers in the Austrian domestic market are still fairly well supplied. On the other hand, exports have also weakened somewhat in the recent period. There were no significant changes in producer prices. In Lower Austria and Upper Austria, table potatoes were generally bought at 30 euros per 100 kilograms earlier this week, although individual buyers continued to hold ...