To avoid high storage costs, Wilhelm Weuthen GmbH advises growers with a lot of free potatoes in the shed to offer them now for alternative processing such as biogas, feed potato or starch. Aviko Potato considers it dangerous to give such general advice. After all, every company is different.
The German potato wholesaler Wilhelm Weuthen GmbH, which is active in the Netherlands through Agrea-Potato, advises growers with a lot of free potatoes in the barn to already offer them for alternative processing such as biogas, feed potato or starch. Wilhelm Weuthen gives this advice on the basis of the current potato crisis and the poor outlook in combination with the high storage costs. The latter mainly due to the high price tag associated with spraying with anti-germ agents.
Leave the shed closed
The chance that the processing industry will still buy free potatoes in the coming months is minimal. “Free potatoes will not be bought. We at Aviko even occasionally look for alternative sales channels for the potatoes we have contracted. ” That’s what Wim van Buggenum of Aviko Potato says. He emphasizes that his organization does not advise growers on whether or not to sell free potatoes now. “The grower has to decide that for himself. Giving advice in this is very difficult anyway. After all, every company is different.
For example, it is not wise for a grower who has his contract and free potatoes in one shed to open the potato storage shed now and then sand out the free potatoes and only later the contracted ones. You have to leave these parties alone. For growers who have several sheds, scouring the free potatoes can now be an option, ”says Van Buggenum. “I notice a clear wait-and-see attitude among the growers I supervise. However, the use of preservatives is also very expensive. ”
