Harvesting
Rain damage in the south could delay the end of Chile's potato shortage
Weather now drives Brazilian potato prices week by week as the winter crop is lifted
The right harvester depends on area, soil, labour and downtime costs, not on the drive type alone
Sorting by size lets growers sell every part of the crop, from the fresh market to starch
Less area and lower yields in Spain add to the shortage of potatoes across western Europe
Losses of this size mean Austria will rely more on stored stocks and imports this winter
A smaller minimum size lets more of the drought-hit crop go to fries processors this season
A smaller island crop means the crisps maker must buy more potatoes from Sweden and Denmark
Austria joins the list of buyers for imported table potatoes in an already short market
The pace of digging in Manitoba will decide how much processing crop reaches storage in good shape
The crop is smaller and uneven, so stocks and transport between regions matter more this winter
Official monthly figures give a rare view of potato supply in Central America
Minsk wants more potato area and exports, adding supply to Russian and Central Asian markets
Low yields and a low share of large tubers mean less raw material for Belgian processors
A strong southern harvest going straight to market could offset shrinking area elsewhere in Russia
Northern China's autumn crop sets domestic supply through winter and what China can offer export markets
A national average hides farms with almost no crop in Bavaria and near-normal yields in the north
The benchmark fries-potato price barely moved at harvest peak, a sign buyers expect supply to stay tight
Wet digging on a smaller Idaho crop raises storage and quality risks for the whole season
Since 2022, restoring old parts often beats buying new ones
Prices falling in Russia in the same week Europe is repricing a shortage upward
A harvest below 40 million tonnes for the first time, after growers cut acres on purpose
The first estimate covering the whole region rather than one country at a time
Vegetables outyield potatoes here by a factor of nearly two per hectare
A calm national average hiding a threefold gap between two regions
Potato farmers across several regions of Russia and Kazakhstan are facing severe crop losses due to contrasting extreme…
Red River Valley loses a fifth of its crop, but national pricing caps the upside
78,000 tonnes lifted from a tenth of the area, yield easing as the south comes in
Seed from Karelia now goes to a Lipetsk french fry plant
Yield down to 37.4 t/ha and €400 million in losses — UNPT asks for state aid
The Republic of Karelia has officially kicked off its 2026 harvesting campaign for vegetables and potatoes, with farmers…
6,000 hectares surveyed clean after a golden nematode find earlier this year
179 hectares in Karelia, and the seed goes to a federal french fry plant
Potatoes and forage up 8%, grains and pulses down 18% — area follows demand
6.5 million tonnes, down 21% — and Belgium buys more French potatoes than anyone
Geography decides this trade: Chinese potatoes reach the Far East, not Central Russia
Federal money for stores goes unspent because regions will not co-finance it
Potatoes up 8%, winter rapeseed up 60% — the crop structure is being rebuilt, not tweaked
98% of Dagestan’s potatoes come from household plots — the policy is to change that
19,000 hectares out after years of expansion — growers lengthening rotations as risk control
Alsum Farms in Adams, Wisconsin, has officially commenced its red and yellow potato harvest, with the first loads…
Fuel held above federal limits — the region treated logistics as the harvest risk
32,000 t of storage against a 23,000 t target — capacity is not the constraint here
A week of sustained rain could start irreversible rotting, as it did last year
€0.17/kg was profitable six years ago; today it needs €0.22–0.24 to break even
286,040 tonnes of potatoes in six months, up 6.8% — onions grew faster still
Regular Frites from €7.75 to €10.00–15.00 — the season’s highest, with the crop still in the ground
The entire 7,000-tonne target is contracted to chips and fries — nothing for the fresh market
Greenhouse capacity, not subsidy, is what brought fresh produce prices down in Kamchatka
Frozen took 40.28% of the market in 2023 — the segment the whole forecast rests on
