What is a wholesale market?
A wholesale market is a place where growers, importers and traders sell fresh produce, meat, fish or flowers in bulk to retailers, restaurants, processors and other traders.
Wholesale markets bring many buyers and sellers to one place, often at night or early in the morning, so that fresh products can reach shops the same day. Many are run by a city or a public company; some are private.
Prices are set by trading between buyers and sellers. Many markets publish a daily or weekly bulletin with the lowest and highest prices recorded for each product, variety, grade and origin. These bulletins are the main source of the quotes on Husfarm.
Besides physical wholesale markets, Husfarm also shows prices from commodity exchanges and from official price reports prepared by ministries and statistical offices.
Markets and exchanges on Husfarm · When markets publish
Other questions
- 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 affects fruit and vegetable prices?
- 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?