Do cauliflowers maintain higher prices?

In the current season on the wholesale market of Polish cauliflowers, we are experiencing a real price roller coaster. The end of May and the beginning of June brought the first wave and a significant price drop. However, in the second week of last month, the price trend reversed dramatically, and we had absolutely record-breaking cauliflower prices. But in the third decade of June, there was another reversal of the trend, and a very dynamic price reduction occurred.

As shown in our chart, this price roller coaster ride has not ended yet. The hot weather in July once again stirred up cauliflower prices. The supply of these vegetables clearly started to decrease, leading to an increase in prices. Not as much as in June, but enough to bring the average wholesale selling price to the highest level in relation to the previous five seasons.

Currently, the wholesale selling prices of cauliflowers in this market sector are mostly between 4.00-5.50 PLN/piece (0.93-1.28 EUR/piece). This gives an average of 4.75 PLN/piece (1.11 EUR/piece). It is no longer an absolute record, but still high. A year ago, we had exactly the same listing in the price monitoring of the fresh-market.pl editorial team, but there were no higher prices in the rest of the listings.

What awaits us next in the cauliflower market? The weather has eased off a bit now. It has become cooler, so the supply of cauliflowers should improve to some extent. We can expect another corrective price decline in cauliflower, but it will not be significant in the near future. The key factor remains the weather. If the heat returns in August, we will have another episode of price fluctuations.