date:Oct 13, 2012
e household budget on food than we did 50 years ago. Critics of factory farming claim food nowadays is too cheap and we should all be prepared to pay more for quality produce. Thanks to the second worst summer on record, they are about to get their way.
Heavy rain in July and August left crops rotting in the fields. Wheat yields are at their lowest levels in 30 years, down 14 per cent on last year. Nothing has escaped the deluge. The UK apple crop is down 27 per cent on last year but grapes hav