One Good Thing About The Hot Weather........

Verdun please don't keep adding "Salt to the wound"....your living in luxury land compared to many and that includes myself

 

Heat is back now but we Cornish love it and the rain
Marley makes a serious point though....foodstuff will be both scarce and expensive this autumn and winter farmers down here are struggling.

 

Yet the farmers usually cry out for this weather in August for the harvest
Back in March we wondered if we would ever get any dry warm weather!!

 

That's something I wrote exactly two months ago..
Perhaps not the best Summer to get my feet wet (dry?) with gardening

 

Prices will rise a bit, then imports of grain will start to come in, if prices else where are cheaper and good harvest, normally you will see grain coming from Canada, Usa, Russin/Ukraine (not sure about this bit now ??,France, Gemary, even Austraila (biggest exporter to UK), most flour mills are on the water side so imports are easy, high portein wheat comes into Tibury all the time

 

The warm weather has hurt the weeds - that's good!

 

Well, have you ever met a farmer that doesn't moan about the weather.
I should add, I know the weather probably affects them more than most regarding their work.

But, speaking to the orchard manager where I work.
He said he hates good years, as the prices are so low, so to him a bad harvest is good

I sometimes do wonder, if farmers do actually lose out regarding weather, short supply, the price goes up, glut, the price goes down.
On the news today they stated that imports wont fill the gap as most of the countries we import grain from are struggling also.
Funny that they only mentioned the EU and Russia?

I think they forget that there is a world out there.

 

Which is what I was saying.

 

Nor the Nile Delta as EU, Russian, Chinese and American multinationals have owned that land for years and its output is already spoken for!

 

If the price is right it will be exported, the movement around the world is at times, As a lorry driver is this country who has haul grain to and from ports it opens your eyes as to what goes on

Helped to load one ship (4000 tons)of barley it sailed to international waters then turned around and sailed back into the same dock and we had then the job of unloading her