Torrential rain at the start of the summer has hit fruit and vegetable crops, pushing prices up for shoppers – as much as 49 percent.
First farmers had to deal with drought, then record-breaking downpours.
“The biggest problem with lack of sun is the colour of the crop and the growth rates, but also with too much rain you get disease problems where crops become unsaleable,” said David Kemp at the family farm in Kilverstone, Norfolk.
Farmers across the country have been struggling and if yields are down or harvests are delayed, there is an inevitable shortage of produce which pushes up the price.
In July 2011, carrots cost 37p per kg. A year on they were 55p – up 49%. And an iceberg lettuce that was 27p wholesale last year is up to 38p now – a 41% rise.
The heavy rain has also reduced the quality of some of the produce.
“Things are just not keeping like they normally do. Carrots are turning black and potatoes are melting as quick as you get them out within a few days,” he said.
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Hi Robert, this isn’t relevant to this topic, but I thought you’d like to see the this link.
Warmies are suggesting that there may be METHANE trapped under the Antarctic, which will “contribute towards global warming” should the ice melt!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19410444
They’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel now!!
It will get a lot worse, once the ice sheets start to advance, there will be billions starving. Too bad we can’t create some global warming.
When the ice sheets start to advance, the deserts of Spain and North Africa will become fertile. What you can grow where in the USA will just shift southwards. Where it is currently too hot to grow several things it will become possible to grow them.
Nature evolves as a system.
Both warmists and ice age scaremongerers fail to discuss that.
It’s about time that both sides did.
All ice ages in the past 250,000 years began catastrophically, moving from periods of warmth such as today’s or even warmer (such as the Eemian Period) into full-fledged ice-age conditions in less than 20 years. I don’t believe that humans will be able to adapt that quickly. Nor do I think the Spaniards or North Africans would welcome millions or northern refugees with open arms.
Laughing in the face of adversity is uplifting. Thanks, Postman.
Not sure if the ice sheets advance or accumulate, as there are cataclysmic snowstorms that don’t melt over the summer. Volcanic dust blocking out the sun also sounds particularly likely and imminent. Probably for the best considering the harmful effect of the sun’s rays on the skin.
Let them eat carbon!
considering the value in ref to the euro and pund to aus money.
hmm?
were paying 5$ a KILO for pumpkins, 4$ for a medium cauliflower or cabbage, 3$ a lettuce, 2$ a kilo of carrots and they go black mouldy in the packs without any rain damage etc,spuds are around 2 to 3$ a Kilo,
onions are 3$ a kilo, capsicums are $8.99 a kilo these prices are average local rural,seeing as it is winter here tomatos vary from 10 to 14 a kilo and are foul,taste and colourless.
so? my point?
sounds like UK has been paying far too little for its produce anyway!
Produce report from California
Corn: 6 ears for a dollar
Tomatos: Roma $1.29 a pound
Iceberg Lettuce: 2 heads for a dollar
Green Peppers: $.89 a pound
Raspberries: Buy one get one free. $4.99 a quart.
Celery: one dollar each
Avacado: 2 for $3.00.
I have to say that we do have some good quality produce here in cali. Thats supermarket prices. Farmer’s market is comparable but the quality is usually a bit better in my opinion.
Robert, Southern countries will no doubt be none to keen on welcoming the Northern countries populace. However, the Northern countries will be desperate and they are by and large better armed than their Southern neighbours. The inevitable adjustments in populations may be somewhat painful.
if we did have some sort of day after tomorrow rapid ice age thing or even the 20 yr quick ice age, i think crushing up coal to dust and sprinkling it over the ice would certainly change its albedo, just a thought! No one really mentions what humans could do to stop an ice age?