Europe: Potato Planting Conditions Are Starting to Improve
Across Europe, potato planting conditions are starting to improve although there were storms in the southern part of The Netherlands recently with rainfall totals reaching 60mm. The recently planted crop was also flooded.
“Planting of maincrop for processing across France, Belgium, and Holland was put at 20% recently but there has been good progress since. Plantings in the U.K. have also progressed well,” according to a recent IFA press release.
In Ireland, some good spud planting progress has been made around the country.
“It is estimated that approximately 50% of plantings are now complete. There were significant delays in the southeast as wet weather continued to hamper progress. This is the second year in a row that planting is running very late and as a result, stocks are now running extremely tight,” the IFA potato experts concluded.
