EU agricultural markets
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Stations on Hungary's Great Plain recorded as little as a quarter of their previous lowest July-September rainfall as the growers' deadline for the crop arrives this week
Select Harvests blames falling California supply; INC puts world output up 4.8%, USDA calls the US crop flat and buyers call stocks healthy; Spain's 39% jump is the weak link after record heat
Italian stocks are 43.9 per cent higher than a year ago and extra-virgin is quoted at €4.85 a kg against €9.59 last August
Six-month shipments of 22,409 tonnes exceed any full year since 2000, as Interprolive forecasts a 1.2mn-tonne crop and Andalucía asks Brussels to suspend duty-free inward processing
Belgapom quotation steady for four weeks after three seasons in which opening prices fell 58 to 75 per cent; EEX delisted the European processing potato future on 5 June
Almería and Granada growers were paid €1.15/kg in 2025/26 as Spain’s fresh-tomato export volume fell 45% over eleven campaigns and Morocco became the EU’s larger supplier.
The world's largest olive-oil bottler is changing hands with Spanish extra virgin back at its €3.50 floor and Tunisia now the biggest supplier to the US
Growers' body UNPT projects the national crop down 23% and seeks state aid, days before the agriculture minister sizes a wider drought plan.
The regional government has quantified the damage in its own market report, even as the harvest that would carry the evidence is being picked.
Carrefour, Coopérative U and the wider trade agreed to accept smaller produce. Rungis apple prices show the entire summer rise has gone to fruit that still meets the grade.
Northern deliveries ran more than 50 per cent above the five-year average by 2 August, while soluble solids fell below their seasonal average and the grower payment index slipped to 96.8 per cent
