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Fear growing over supplies of vegetables
Monday 11th January 2010, 8:00PM GMT.
Snow on Downton View, Ludlow, this morning.
And many north Shropshire students will have an extra week’s holiday after bosses at Glyndwr University in Wrexham decided it should remain closed until next week.
The weather has also affected rubbish collections for many and residents across Telford and Wrekin will have an extra collection of their household rubbish next week, after some local roads in the borough have been too dangerous for rubbish and recycling collection vehicles to use this week.
Telford & Wrekin Council is working with contractors TWS to provide a grey bin collection to every borough household next week.
Firefighters had to force their way into an empty house in Southgate, Sutton Hill, Telford to tackle a flood caused when a pipe fractured.
And Newport Rainbow Senior Citizens’ Club has postponed its New Year lunch on Thursday due the weather.
By Wayne Beese
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scaremonger rubbish so please behave , Milk not a problem, and neither is the supply of vegetables. This weather situation would have to go on for months and our supply from the rest of the world would also have to stop.
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This weather is used as an excuse to hike prices as milk & veg will be in short supply?
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So there could be a shortage of sprouts…..I see no problem with that :)
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Last time I checked, sprouts and cabbage grow on stalks above the ground, so, yes they may be frost hardened but won’t be frozen IN the soil! Someone needs to visit a farm I think, rather than buying sanitised veg from their supermarket. The hardest hit crops will be parsnips and carrots, so expect to see more imported stocks of carrots in particular coming into the UK a little earlier than usual (supermarkets import too many anyway). The supermarkets do have a choice though, they could let the consumer bear the cost of the increased farm gate prices (what I expect they’ll do now that they’ve successfully spun this and similar stories!), or they could do what some of the more ethical veg suppliers are doing – paying a fair price to the growers that reflects what it cost to grow and harvest the produce; and take the bear the price increase themselves (highly unlikely).
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