This is what a wet spring costs. Get used to it
The wheat shortfall is not a freak year. It is the new shape of the British calendar
Farmers in Lincolnshire are describing a year that did not happen. Fields unsown until May. Yields down by a fifth. Millers buying from Canada.
The temptation is to call it a bad year and move on. The climate models say otherwise: wetter winters and springs are the projection for the UK, not the exception.
Cheap bread was a product of a predictable calendar. The calendar is changing, and the price will follow.
Ellen Whitaker is a Daily Meridian columnist