The Great British potato shortage

There is always an excuse for higher food prices and now it’s a shortage of potatoes. Earlier in the year farmer’s organisations said there would be a shortage because of the ‘drought’. They did their rain dances and rain came and kept on coming. After a summer of persistent and record breaking rainfall, they complain crops have  potato blight.

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30, November 2012 | Categories: Finance, Finance Friday | Tags: fish and chips, fried rice, higher chip prices, potato blight, potato shortage, speculation in commodities, staple foods, Tefal Actifry | 3 Comments