“Smaller crop of redcurrants results in in-demand market”
The redcurrant harvest at Dutch company BerryBrothers has come to an end. “We took a shorter time to harvest this year than we were used to. Fortunately, the quality of the fruit is good. We prefer the current summer to the extreme heat we’ve had in the summer months in recent years anyway, the berries hate that,” Nijs van Zuilen says.
“However, the wet period we had from November to June did affect the harvest. As a result, winter temperatures have been high and actually redcurrants need a traditional winter chill. You can therefore see across the board that less fruit has been harvested,” Nijs continued. “This has resulted in prices being at a high level. That does sometimes create dilemmas. As a grower, you naturally like to sell your product at the …