Germany: By Christmas, the price of potatoes and onions may reach the tolerance limit

The distribution of German table potatoes is currently very smooth. There have been several price increases recently, so farmers have started to release their stocks. "Personally, I expect further price increases, which may reach consumers' pain threshold at Christmas," says Slave Spaseski, managing director of Poland's Openica Logistics. Among other things, the company delivers potatoes to the wholesale market in Berlin. He sees that a lot of table potatoes are exported from Eastern Germany and Lower Saxony to Hungary and Romania, as a result of which the local, German markets have a lower supply, which affects the prices as well. According to Spaseski, the situation for red onions is even worse. "German onion prices are catastrophic, in some categories they are 50 percent higher than last year. Onions are available wholesale at an average price of 0.70-0.80 euros/kg. So far, I don't see a quality problem in it, but I don't know how many selections it has gone through before it ...