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Farmers fight back !


Frederick

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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 ?
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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 ? 
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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.

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