Overview

• Germany’s 2025 potato crop topped 13.4 million tonnes, the biggest in 25 years according to the agriculture ministry.
• Prices for table potatoes have fallen to below €10 per 100 kilograms in some reports, pushing many growers into losses with organic farms under the most pressure.
• With storage and processing saturated, surplus potatoes are being left in fields or diverted to biogas plants and livestock feed.
• Niedersachsen grower Heiner Middelbeck says contracted volumes moved but free‑market excess could not be sold for the first time and he plans to cut acreage next season.
• Regional reports from Bavaria and Lower Saxony cite yields up around 20 percent, supermarkets discounting heavily, and some farmers underplowing crops or receiving only a fraction of usual wholesale prices.