Pea shortage pushes up free market prices; other stocks expected to tighten by spring: vegetable processors hope that economic realities will now sink in among wholesale, retail and industrial buyers, most of whom have stubbornly resisted higher-cost contracts in recent years.(BENELUX GREEN SCENE)

From: Quick Frozen Foods International | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Saulnier, John M. | Copyright information

Worries over potentially serious shortages of major processing vegetables in large parts of Europe, which loomed large last July and August, were reduced to just cautious concerns in the end. Despite a cool and cloudy spring in Benelux countries and northern France, too much rain in Romania and southern Hungary, and drought conditions in Spain and Portugal, by November it became clear that the supply situation for most varieties was manageable.

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