Fruit and veg

Pudsey Bear said:
Try buying eggs too, went to four super markets on Thursday, not a hegg in sight.
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Plenty at my local egg producer's. Knowing that supermarkets are ripping farmers off, we've started buying from our local egg producer. There is a slight shortage because they have to keep their hens indoors and they're consequently not laying so many. Also, some birds have been culled -- so not as many hens either. However, we can usually get trays of 30 'wonky eggs' for £2.50 and if they've sold out of those, a tray of 30 medium eggs are £3.50 and 30 large eggs are only a fiver. For info, there's nothing wrong with 'wonky eggs', just that the shells might have the wrong texture or be slightly misshapen and so not acceptable to supermarkets -- but you wouldn't know the difference if served scrambled, poached or fried.
 
It's the cost of their food which is ruining it for the public, Lizs daughter got some rescue hens about a year ago and they are thriving now so we can get a few from her now and then.
 
Our local ASDA put a notice on the egg shelf ,. Only two units per customer,. So everyone who normally bought a box of 6 bought two boxes of 12. Just in case .
No shortage......good marketing......sales boom....created a shortage.
 
There is an element of truth in the cooler temperatures in Spain and Morocco causing the shortages.

Been in southern Spain nearly 2 months now and in all that time the temperature has not gone higher than 19c and only on the odd day. It’s been hovering around 15c to 16c for much of the time with a cooling northerly or easterly breeze. Apart from 2 or 3 very light showers no rain either so very dry.

Noticed recently that the crop planters are only just starting to sort out the fields and crops. Later than normal.

Normally we would experience spells when temperatures consistently rise above 20c.

It is only from today that things seem to be warming up weather wise with 26c predicted towards the end of the week.

Odd that as Spain warms up the U.K. heads back into winter which British farmers claim will create a poor growing season and further fruit and veg shortages going forward.
 
Moped said:
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Odd that as Spain warms up the U.K. heads back into winter which British farmers claim will create a poor growing season and further fruit and veg shortages going forward.
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I don't know about that because you can grow solar panels, wind turbines and trees as easily in cold as warm weather!
 
Central Norfolk:

Free-range large white eggs at our Green Egg Hut went upto £1.10 per half dozen about a month ago; never any shortages.
Tomatoes in central display at Sainsbury (1:30pm, 6/3/23): 5 empty boxes/trays; one containing two packets of 12.

I remember being appalled in Lidl in Almeria (2018) to find a pack of 3 peppers were €1.69 whereas I'd been buying them in Lidl here for £0.79. Probably they aren't having a shortage!

You win some, you lose some.

Gordon
 
Maybe we should go back to eating seasonal fruit and veg from local producers, and grow more ourselves any way we can ( tubs, garden, window boxes) for next year? We have Thanet Earth down the road from us but they are exporting produce to places like Singapore where their cucumbers cost £2.90! They say the UK supermarkets want unrealistic prices....
 
for many many years, France has been dumping its rubbish Golden Delicious and other apples and fruit on us. Go into any European supermarket and you can just smell the lovely apples, other fruit and veg from a long way off, and see tons of it on the shelves. It makes you weep. I can't make any definitive comment on why they have it and we don't, I can only guess that they manage to grow it and pick it, whereas we can't get anyone to give up all their Social Security benefits to go and take those jobs for less income than they get for sitting at home watching bloomin' awful daytime TV. I've been in those houses servicing their gas boilers, and believe me they get the absolute minimum of a safety check from me.
 
It seems there is now a shortage of turnips, the biggest turnip grower in UK was in Coffey's constituency, they have given up growing them due to price pressure by supermarkets.
 
Supermarkets tie growers into long term contracts, often buying at well below the market price. When prices rise, the grower does not benefit, when costs rise they are expected to absorb the cost. In France and Germany the supermarkets set the prices they pay to growers weekly.
Many growers here are throwing in the towel. This long term trend is a serious threat to our food security and makes us even more reliant on imports in an unstable world.
 
And boy do we need to grow wind farms and solar farms! We are all supposed to go and buy electric cars (in a 'Let them eat cake" stance from the government) and yet we can't even generate enough electricity to meet the current demand. It takes 8 hours to recharge a car from the domestic mains in order to give you 2 hours of driving. Which means that for every car on the road there will be four cars plugged into the mains . . . . but no one has thought of that . . . .and even that assumes that there is some mains to plug into, let alone is there any electricity left for them to buy.
The rest of the plebs (I'm upper class and I look down on him, because he is middle class, don't you know) must pay £25 congestion and £25 emissions charges per day if they want to drive their cheap-and-nasty combustion engined cars around.

Oh and by the way when thinking that an electric car is cheaper to run than a combustion car, you have to factor in the fact that the battery costs £5000 and mine lasted two years. So that's £2500 a year running costs to start with. Oh yes, Nissan will tell you it has a 5 year warranty. So after two years and 8000 miles mine needed a new battery, but "The warranty is void because the car was plugged in to recharge it when it was already 80% charged, and that voids the warranty. Sir.
Never again.
 
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