Bread and flour prices to rise after poor harvest

Missfoodlove

Stock up while you can!!
Great advice....... let’s create another shortage.

agree! why can't people be generous, or even just replace what they have used?

A lot of our cereal is also used to feed animals

@NotSpaghetti There wasn't a shortage caused by a 30% reduction in the wheat crop last time! climate impacts around the world aren't going to go away, whatever size of bag of flour you want!

Food prices are already very high here and I dread the bills going up even higher!

Much wheat is produced in this country for the production of ethanol.

The amount sold for ethanol is shrouded in secrecy so there are no figures published as to exactly how much of the U.K.’s wheat harvest is used for the production of ethanol.

A farmer friend admitted to me a couple of years ago that he was given a guaranteed amount per tonne from a fuel company that far exceeded the price from millers

I found this online but no statistics;

Due to the sensitive nature of the information, usage of wheat by the bioethanol industry is not published as a separate entity to flour millers. That said, a good indication of the general level of wheat used in the UK for bioethanol and starch is captured under the ‘Other flour’ production category.

The high protein wheat flour that is used in bread is imported from Canada, Germany and France. None of whom do we have a trade agreement.

If our harvest is poor there will inevitably be shortages.

If there is no trade agreement there will be tariffs which will put up the price.

Exactly Esspee.
The bread that i buy has gone up 25p and boxes of cereal have gone up by 32p to name just two items.
It seems like farmers put the costs up and that`s where they stay.

This is getting biblical.

I can understand price rises when there has been a poor harvest.
Why do we never see price reductions when the harvest is good is what I would like to know?

Polly99 - the last shortage was not the flour being in short supply, it was the smaller flour bags of the sort an ordinary shopper might buy from the supermarket.

If you buy it in 16kg (or larger) sacks there was no shortage at all.

This time there will be shortages, and without a deal, price rises because of import taxes.

Stock up while you can!!
Great advice....... let’s create another shortage.

You’d be wise to stock up whilst you can as the poor harvest, and Brexit looking to be a no deal things might get decidedly difficult.