This is the last remaining bit of our wheat from Hope Farm - about 150t apparently.
And saleable at c£185/t at the moment. Close to £30k worth.
A love of the natural world demonstrates that a person is a cultured inhabitant of planet Earth.
If you're the consumer it may hurt, but actually very little - look back to the proportion of our incomes we spend on food and the decline over the last 20 years makes a 16% increase in food prices look absolutely tiny. I believe we should be spending more on food - or at least more of that money getting back to the people who grow it, not hijacked between field & supermarket trolly.
But it does make you wonder about liberal economics applied to food supplies - people are going hungry this evening somehwere in the world because of speculation on food as a commodity & prices that fluctuate several times as much as actual supply - and then there is the damage our & the US's subsidies do to agriculture in poor countries. We really do need a rethink.