Almay: Pri pwodiktè pòmdetè Hesse yo plis pase double ane sou ane
Takeaways kle yo
- 36.75 euros per 100 kg: Hesse table-potato price, week 39
- 17.25 euros per 100 kg was paid in the same week of 2025
- 113% is the year-on-year rise for firm-cooking potatoes
- 4 June 2026: EEX ended its processing-potato futures
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- Pou kiltivatè yo
- Growers with uncontracted storage potatoes hold pricing power this winter, but without futures they carry the full price risk; stagger sales.
- Pou procesè yo
- Packers and processors must hedge through contracts only; consider longer-term agreements with price corridors for 2027.
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- Retail buyers should expect higher shelf prices for table potatoes through winter.
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Hesse's official price table shows how sharply the German table-potato market has turned. Growers of firm-cooking conventional potatoes are now paid close to 37 euros per 100 kilograms on average, compared with about 17 euros at this point in 2025; the mainly waxy grade shows a similar jump of roughly 121 per cent. The move comes after Leipzig's energy and commodity exchange withdrew its processing-potato contract in early June for lack of trading, so there is no futures market left in Germany for locking in a price. Growers, packers and processors must rely on bilateral contracts and storage choices instead. A national harvest figure circulating in the financial press could not be traced to official statistics and has been left out until Destatis reports. For shoppers, the doubling at farm level is likely to show up on shelves over the winter.
Producer prices for table potatoes in the German state of Hesse have more than doubled compared with a year ago, according to the weekly price table of the Landesbetrieb Landwirtschaft Hessen (LLH), the state agricultural office.
In calendar week 39 (22 September 2026), conventional quality-I table potatoes of the firm-cooking type averaged €36.75 per 100 kg, within a range of €35–39. In the same week of 2025 the average was €17.25, within €14–19. That is an increase of about 113%.
Mainly waxy (predominantly firm-cooking) potatoes averaged €34.75 per 100 kg, in a range of €33–37, against €15.75 a year earlier — a rise of about 121%.
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The German financial portal wallstreet:online, reporting on 21 September, used the Hesse figures to illustrate what it called a potato price shock. It also recalled that the European Energy Exchange (EEX) in Leipzig stopped trading its processing-potato futures contract on 4 June 2026 because of low liquidity. According to the portal, the last settlement price was €1.40 per 100 kg.
That means German growers and processors are facing one of the sharpest price moves in years without an exchange-traded instrument to hedge it. Price risk is now managed only through bilateral contracts between growers and processors or packers.
The wallstreet:online report also cited a figure for the total German harvest. Its origin could not be traced to an official source, and it is not used here. Destatis, the federal statistics office, has not yet published its 2026 estimate.
The price rise follows a season in which drought cut yields unevenly across Germany. potatoes.news has reported on farm results ranging from 3 to 58.5 t/ha (li rapò a) and on the ECIU’s estimate of German losses (isit la).
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A doubling of table-potato prices in a major consuming state will feed through to retail prices this winter. The closure of the EEX contract just before the spike leaves growers and processors without a market tool to lock in prices, putting more weight on contract terms and on storage decisions.
Foto: Rekòt pòmdetè nan Almay (illustrative). Maja Dumat / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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Destatis has yet to publish its 2026 harvest estimate; further weekly LLH tables will show whether prices keep rising into storage season.
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- LLH Hessen, Erzeugerpreise Kartoffeln — https://llh.hessen.de/unternehmensfuehrung/markt-preise/ackerbaupreise/erzeuger-kartoffeln/
- wallstreet:online — https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/21403170-kartoffelpreise-heben-ab-kartoffel-schock-preise-explodieren-boerse-future-abgeschafft
- EEX closure details according to wallstreet:online.
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