2021 has been a good year , but score by high and increasing prices in almost every category . So , how will 2022 be ? Will the end consumer be quick to pay a high-pitched price ? Will grower be able to pull round the high upgrade in vitality price ? Will all growers get the pots they ordered , to bring on the number of plant they have planned ? In this clause , Claes Bastrup of Danish nursery PKM look back on 2021 and frontward to 2022 .
Claes Bastrup
2021 - A year full of challengesAccording to Bastrup , 2021 has been a year fulfil up with many challenge and unpredictable tasks for all growers . " The continued impact of COVID-19 , arise price for pots , trays , sphagnum , and so on and most recently the Brobdingnagian rises in get-up-and-go prices have hit our industry very hard " .
At PKM , they have feel an exciting year , with both ups and pile , he explains . " It has been a encyclopaedism process to follow our Muehlenbeckia , with a immense demand in the spring , where we did not have plants enough - to a very low need in the autumn , and now we are press quite a few plants in front of us . We also dumbfound both Crassula Schmidtii , Crassula Rosularis and unlike Sedum varieties in our assortment and we have essay Bouvardia and young Lavender varieties . The Campanula time of year has been respectable , and we are pleased with and proud of the feedback we receive from some of our customer . The Schlumbergera season go almost consummate , and we were able-bodied to describe that we were sold out early . Regarding the Gentians we were challenged but had to agitate our way through - here we have made several improvements , which should ensure a better production and thereby a salutary 2022 time of year . "
opening to become greenerDuring 2021 , PKM has worked with several enterprisingness that makes them greener . One of these is to reduce their plastic uptake . " By the final stage of January , we will be able to present raw figure of both sleeves and wraps . We will continuously be switching to using only paper wraps , and we will usher in a nice paper sleeve . These initiatives will thin out our consumption of plastic . "
Another initiative to stand the green profile they visualize is that they have continuously made newfangled and more vim - efficient investments . " Among other things , we empower in new vim - optimized growth lights in some of our greenhouses , we have replaced some of our mantle with high insulating and we have improved our employment of the greenhouse area . "
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outlook for 2022So , what to carry for 2022 ? Besides being excited about their2022 assortment , Bastrup highlights several challenge that the diligence will face in 2022 . " Will the end consumer be ready to pay a higher damage ? Will growers be capable to survive the high rise of vigour prices ? Will all cultivator get the stool which they have ordered , to be able to produce the number of flora they have be after ? "
Essential is the challenge if the end consumer wants to and will be ready to pay a high price for a plant . " It is authoritative that the industriousness stand together now and agitate for better prices for our intersection and it is more significant now than ever . Better toll will give us all the opportunity to stop up our workplace and give us the chance to make investments that can ensure an even greener product . "
At PKM they are sure the customers are willing to pay more for the plants and therefore they choose to look positive into 2022 . " Therefore we have also decided to keep on going with the “ greener ” PKM . "
Nursery visitsUsually , the squad of PKM meets a lot of their client at IPM Essen in Germany , but unluckily , the 2022 is cancelled . For this reasonableness they look forward to their customer sojourn at their nursery in Odense . " We look onward to present some of the many thing we work with every sidereal day . "
For more informationGartneriet PKM A / SClaes BastrupEmaill:[email protected]www.pkm.dk
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