Cauliflower prices soar as extreme weather leads to UK shortage

0 Have your say Britain’s cauliflower growers have said a year’s worth of work has been wiped out after “volatile weather” killed off most of their crops. There is now a shortage of the vegetable with none available to order on the websites of some leading supermarkets.The majority of Britain’s cauliflowers are grown in Lincolnshire.READ MORE: Festivals rush and bad weather push Scots rail workers to ‘breaking point’They are planted in the autumn in preparation for production the following summer. But heavy rainfall in Lincolnshire during June, as much as six inches in a week, flooded and damaged the crops, according to the British Growers Association (BGA).White and red cabbage production has also been affected.There were real concerns among growers, the BGA’s chief executive Jack Ward said.“Effectively a year’s work has been wiped out,” he said. “The problem we face is we don’t know what weather conditions we’re going to get at any one time. Last year it was extreme heat and dry [weather] and this year it is extreme wet.“It’s getting increasingly difficult to know how to respond given the volatility of weather conditions.”Mr Ward also warned there might be supply issues for other vegetables in the brassica family, such… Read full this story

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