Frederick Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 It would appear that the supermarkets have pushed the price that farmers get for growing cauliflowers down from 40p to about 20p....Now the farmers have decided that they are no longer going to grow them.....there is nothing in it for them ...they are to plant a more profitable crop..... so expect a shortage of cauliflowers .....Is this the start of the fight back ?....is this the cauli that broke the camels back ? ......if so then good luck to them ....I wonder what crop will be next ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybananasbrother Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 cauli's at 55cents in Intermarché. How can the farmer make a profit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I remember once there were so many of them, they were burying them just to keep the price up ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybananasbrother Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 If only they sold them by the side of the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Why don't they grow something else? This has been going on for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 Thats what they plan to do Raindog .....and if the price that the supermarkets are prepared to pay for food crops is going to be so low ...then the crop will be one that can be turned into biodiesel where the profit is .....The far East is being covered in Palm Trees for the oil ...we can cover our fields with oil seed rape ...we will have the fuel to drive to the shops but will there be any food in them ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony F Dordogne Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 And hopefully that's where the really interesting scheme Monty Don was looking at in Havana would come into it's own, people would start growing their own on communal public spaces, like the UK's garden guerilla movement.Unless of course your garden is big enough to support your own potager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Riff-Raff Element Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Didn't something similiar happen with satsumas? The UK was the biggest market for them (everyone else eating clementines instead) but Tesco et al didn't want to pay anything like the amount it would need to make them worth growing. So many of the farmers grubbed up their trees and planted clementines, the price of satsumas rocked and the few that still grow them actually make a living these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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