Guide
What affects fruit and vegetable prices?
Mainly the season and the size of the harvest, weather, quality, transport and energy costs, imports and exports, and demand from shops, caterers and processors.
Supply changes through the year: prices are usually lowest when the local harvest is at its peak and higher out of season, when produce comes from storage or from further away.
Weather can reduce or delay harvests and change quality. Costs of fuel, fertiliser, labour and packaging affect what growers and traders need to charge.
Trade policy, exchange rates and demand abroad can move local prices too. Husfarm shows the prices markets publish; it does not forecast them.
This week on the markets · Tools for farmers
Other questions
- What is a wholesale market?
- What is the difference between wholesale and retail prices?
- What does a wholesale price quote mean?
- How does Husfarm convert prices to euros per kilogram?
- Why do prices of the same product differ between markets?
- What do grades and classes mean in produce prices?
- What is the difference between farm-gate, wholesale and export prices?
- How often do markets publish prices?
- Why does Husfarm use the median price?
- How should I read FAOSTAT production data?
- Why do world exports and imports not match?
- How can farmers use wholesale prices?