Coffey with Turnips.

[ravenrover]

How much of the out of season produce toms, peppers cucumbers, salad leaves etc are home produced? Every time we buy them they are always produce of Spain, Netherlands, Italy etc.
If you are one of the producers would you supply UK with all the import nonsense, queues paperwork or simply drive across an open border and supply your fellow EU partners. Weather conditions my arse!

or could it just because fuel is more expensive they will make more profit by selling it to nearby places!

they are selling to nearby places because they’re willing to pay more. And quite right too. The paperwork as suggested will also be an issue. Our disgraceful supermarkets won’t want to eat into the shareholders profits by paying a little bit more. Proved by the fact that many of our nations greenhouses are empty as they can’t afford the cost of heating them through winter and the supermarkets are unwilling to pay the producers more to cover the costs.
The same happened with the eggs. Bird flu my arse. The cost of heating the sheds and the cost of grain to feed them was so much more than what the supermarkets were prepared to pay so just the farmers just stopped producing.
And going forward it will happen with field veg this autumn. Turnips even!! The cost of fertiliser, fuel etc has risen so much that the cost of production is not covered by what the supermarkets are willing to pay so will just not plant them.

They might not want to pay more but they will certainly charge the public more.
Having said which I went into my local Sainsbury local and the only item missing was peppers, of any colour

but they don’t. That’s the problem. Bags of carrots for instance are a matter of pence. So you can assume the pittance they give the farmer. They’re all trying to undercut each other with price promises etc. It’s not covering the cost of production. They’ve taken the piss out of farmers for far too long.
How many industries out there have to buy retail but sell wholesale??

I'm talking about the out of season produce and the current shortages

[Cramby10]

I know but it’s all part of the same corrupt system. It’s the tip of the iceberg. I’m warning you all that the in season stuff will be short before long. It will  get a lot worse before it gets better.