Could The Recent Floods Affect Our Food Prices
Sometimes when it rains it really pours. It seems like in recent years we are either having terrible droughts that dry up all of the crops that farmers work so diligently to produce or it rains and floods so much that the seedlings or plants are drowned or washed away. It is like a double edged sword where either side of is a bad one. It seems that lately many farmers can not get a break and have a perfectly normal growing season.
There really are not that many perfect growing seasons to begin with. There is either too much sun, not enough sun, too little or too much rain, insect infestation, or the cost of fuel and these can be some of the reasons farmers are having such a hard time. By the time they get what produce they have to market, they can have so much money tied up in it that they have no choice but to go up on their selling price just to be able to make enough money to keep them selves afloat.
We have all saw this summer and in recent past years how this cost always eventually gets passed on to us the consumers. Not long ago we had to pay higher prices for orange juice because the Florida orange growers had late frosts that killed a lot of the orange crop. We saw the evidence of this in how much we had to pay for a half a gallon of juice at the grocery store.
If we think that weather situations end up hitting us in our wallet, just imagine what the small farmer goes through. They struggle every year to stay in business and many times they are so in debt that they might never get ahead and become able to run their business in the black. The government has had to help many farmers to stay afloat and not just the small farmers either. It is very important to us as consumers for these farmers to stay in business because just imagine what it would cost us if the majority of them had to go out of business?
We all know the importance of eating fresh fruits and vegetables, but when the prices of almost all of them continue to rise every year, it can be difficult to keep them on our table. It might make you wonder if there is anything we can do to help this situation, but there probably is not as long as the situation is caused by the weather. The weather is the one thing that we have not been able to find a way to change at all.
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