High Feedstock Prices Hardly Reached Consumers
(Union zur Förderung von Oel- und Proteinpflanzen (UFOP)) The scarcity of supply of agricultural feedstock due to drought-related declines in yield had little impact on consumer prices. The main factors driving prices up were labour or energy costs.
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The association has underlined that this price signal must be set in good time, because farmers decide now what the proportion of rapeseed will be in the rotation of crops for the 2019 harvest and, consequently, what amount of feedstock will be available in the next campaign. READ MORE