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Potato Market Update 11th December

Consumption and demand are ramping up as the holiday season fast approaches. The 2024 yield dig figures are now published. Rooster yields were comparable in 2024 to 2023 (with a recorded slight increase). Rooster yields are below the rolling 5-year average, Kerr Pinks yields in 2024 are slightly higher. However, both are significantly lower than the high output years of 2021 and 2022, when there was significant downward pressure on prices. 

Given that there was no 2023 crop available in August, much of the early planted Rooster was moved early to fill that market, especially in the southern half of the country where yields were lower. It seems that much of the extra area planted this year, was used up early in the season when yields were lower, leaving supplies probably adequate for the coming few months.

Consumption and demand are reported to be ramping up across the continent and in the U.K also as the Christmas season approaches. 

  LowHighAverage
Rooster box €600€700€650
Rooster 10kg €7€8€7.50
Chipping Markies (25kg)€13€15€14
Kerr Pinks 10kg €8€9€8.50

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