Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Yeah just let the market solve the problem.
No one to blame really.
Just normal life in the veg trade. Wholesale price far more volatile than retail USUALLY.
Moroccan Salad Shortage...
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No one to blame really.
Just normal life in the veg trade. Wholesale price far more volatile than retail USUALLY.
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- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
It's a tough job vegetable farming. Survival of the fittest. Yes supermarkets are tough to deal with but so are most other buyers .We always had problems with potato merchants especially with the last loads of the season. When we used to sell pigs in the market there were buyers who wouldn't buy pigs unless they got a backhander. I've sold pigs individually or in bits, I've delivered potatoes to chip shops and cull sows to butchers but dealing with supermarkets is no worse and probably better than most of dealing I've had to do.
ollie989898
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It's such a shame. It's good honest food reared by people who do the job because they probably do care about it. Why all this BS involved.
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Cos if it was easy, everyone would do it.
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- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Napoleon is supposed to have said that Britain was a 'nation of shopkeepers ' it's probably true everyone of them trying to make a profit off their suppliers.
It would be interesting to hear from overseas TFF members,as to whether they are also experiencing veg and salad crop shortages in their countries.
How are things in the U.S @Roger Perry ,as
many areas of the U.S are so short of water?
It would be especially interesting to hear from Scandinavian TFF members.
How are things in the U.S @Roger Perry ,as
many areas of the U.S are so short of water?
It would be especially interesting to hear from Scandinavian TFF members.
Courier
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- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
Dont bother watching all the way through, a few too many home truths
Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
So it’s nothing to do with the supermarkets not paying enough, it’s all part of a plot by the Ruskies?Dont bother watching all the way through, a few too many home truths
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- Near Beeston Castle
Farming Today this morning on R4 covered the shortage. Worth a listen if you are interested.
Vertical farms were suggested as a solution to which the spokesman for Lea Valley Growers replied "Show me one that has ever made a profit and I will give it some consideration".
Vertical farms were suggested as a solution to which the spokesman for Lea Valley Growers replied "Show me one that has ever made a profit and I will give it some consideration".
Tonka
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- N Yorkshire
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guernseydonkey
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- guernsey channel islands.
Roger Perry
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- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Possibly but it would be a short window. Generally sweet potatoes in the UK come from the states. North Carolina being a very big supplier. When there’s frost in South Florida thers’s shortages of beans, tomatoes and squashes but a lot of production has been moved to Mexico and Central America because of cheaper labour.
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- Limousin, France
Thread says it all
We just don't grow anything in the UK anymore. How can you hope to have full shelves relying on imports ? Watched this a while back for obvious reasons.........but skip to 12.10 ish..... Acres of abandoned glasshouses. What a waste. 
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- Limousin, France
No shortage here ,or further South. France
Roger Perry
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As always, "economics dictate"
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- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Interestingly i was at Fruit logistica in Berlin two weeks ago. I met with our importers and the main produce buyer for Waitrose and line managers for Aldi and Morrisons. The general consensus was demand for fruit and veg had declined greatly. Our importer reckons they are selling 17% less than during Covid. Most likely all of this is due to the Supermarkets ordering less than normal then abnormal weather tightening supplies.
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- Limousin, France
Vegetable shortages in UK could be ‘tip of iceberg’, says farming union
Energy prices, Brexit and climate crisis mean growers lack confidence to plant crops, says NFU deputy
www.theguardian.com
It says there was 154 spanish trucks on that stretch of road it that time, perhaps during normal times there are double that. Unless Terry had counted them we will never know.