(AMI) - The evaluation of the land application data of farmers in Lower Saxony, which corresponds to a survey, is estimated to amount to 117,627 hectares, which is 5.7% more than in the previous year. The statistics only distinguish between starch potatoes, potatoes (food) and potatoes. In 2017, the area with potatoes increased by 6.9% to 39,126 hectares. Potatoes and other processing potatoes came from a growth of 3.7% to 72,769 hectares. In a year-on-year comparison, the cultivation of potatoes is particularly suspicious. In the last two decades there is no year with a similar scale. This is different in the case of industrial potatoes, but there has been a rapid decline in the starch potato range there since 2010, so that the area with refining potatoes, that is, for the production of chips, French fries or flakes, has probably also become significantly larger. In Lower Saxony, the yield security is quite high, as extensive rain is used. Only 2006 is an exception.Already in the case of an average yield, as calculated for the past 10 years, a very large crop of around 5.5 million tonnes would come together in 2017.
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After the April contract for Frittrohstoff on the derivatives market had exceeded the mark of 20.00 EUR / dt, it went down steeply again. Not only did profit-taking play a role. It is currently strongly speculated on the weather and currently the weather services for the coming week announce the fading of the heat and moderate day temperatures of a good 20 degrees Celsius. There should be rain. However, whether the potato is sufficient to keep it up is questionable. It is usually not announced in larger quantities. Forecasts for Belgium and France suggest a precipitation probability of over 50% almost every day, but the expected rainfall is often hardly worth mentioning and certainly not available at all. It remains exciting and the futures market has the potential to recover from the mid-week reached 17.20 EUR / dt.
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