Vegetable Firms Hot Commodities in '07, As Green Scene Becomes Less Serene

摘要

Scarcity of precious peas reaches historic level in Europe. Couple that with zero or near-zero carryover of key vegetable varieties, and it is no surprise that prices are shooting up. A From-the-Field Report As a severe shortage of peas and tight supplies of beans and sweet corn in Europe impacted the EU frozen food market in late 2007 - and will continue to be felt until new crops are harvested in 2008 - another development still reverberating has to do with the supply of and demand for vegetable processing companies on the auction block.