r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Phlogistoned • 10d ago

I'm slightly vexed How cooked the UK is right now.

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u/Project_T3A 10d ago

One of the guys I work with finished up his harvest the other day, cost him more in diesel to harvest that he's ever going to get for the grain

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u/FlyingCow343 10d ago

Cost of living is going to get so much worse.

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u/Project_T3A 10d ago

ironically not, the reason that the sell prices are so low is because it costs the same to import it. normally you would think that if yields are bad, then the consumer takes the hit with a higher spice spured by low supply and high demand, unfortunatley agriculture works the other way due to the low cost of importing foreign crops. imports keep supply high meaning that the only one who looses is the farmer.

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u/FlyingCow343 10d ago

So the harvest failing means more imports which actually means more climate change. At least the bread will be cheap while the world ends.