Meanwhile this is happening on our doorstep to Scottish Blueberry farmers because Supermarkets prefer to import Genetically Modified Blueberries from Peru and other countries. Next time you buy Blueberries look at the label as to where they come from.
A Scottish farmer is giving away a crop of blueberries which would normally be worth millions of pounds.
Peter Thomson has 60 acres of blueberry bushes on his farm in Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
He said the fruit would previously have been worth about £3m - but its value had fallen by about £1m this year.
Mr Thomson said it no longer made economic sense to harvest the fruit, which will now benefit local charities and be given to a food bank.
Scottish blueberries have traditionally commanded a high price as they were ripe at a time of year when those produced in other countries were not ready for harvesting.
New varieties are now grown in places such as Peru and South Africa, meaning that advantage has been lost.
Normally 200 full-time workers would have picked hundreds of tonnes of blueberries this year.
But Mr Thomson, whose team have been operating for 30 years, said the cost of growing, picking, packing and transporting the blueberries to the supermarket made that unviable.
He told BBC Scotland's Landward programme that blueberries were being imported from sub-tropical countries like Peru and South Africa which had developed new genetics.
"They can grow them at any time of the year, so this special season that Scotland had has disappeared.
"Instead of the high price bit of the season, it's the low price bit of the season.
"The labour in these countries costs a tenth of what it costs here and we can't compete."
.i have been working for a psychiatrist, and she is always eating blue berries, she is always offering them as a snack.......she said they are the key to fighting off dementia, but you need to start consuming them before your 50s.
.i have been working for a psychiatrist, and she is always eating blue berries, she is always offering them as a snack.......she said they are the key to fighting off dementia, but you need to start consuming them before your 50s.
I don't remember this being plastered all over the news at the time and where were all the climate activists ? Too busy sitting down on the M25 or disrupting sporting events.
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Meanwhile this is happening on our doorstep to Scottish Blueberry farmers because Supermarkets prefer to import Genetically Modified Blueberries from Peru and other countries. Next time you buy Blueberries look at the label as to where they come from.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-63316050
A Scottish farmer is giving away a crop of blueberries which would normally be worth millions of pounds.
Peter Thomson has 60 acres of blueberry bushes on his farm in Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
He said the fruit would previously have been worth about £3m - but its value had fallen by about £1m this year.
Mr Thomson said it no longer made economic sense to harvest the fruit, which will now benefit local charities and be given to a food bank.
Scottish blueberries have traditionally commanded a high price as they were ripe at a time of year when those produced in other countries were not ready for harvesting.
New varieties are now grown in places such as Peru and South Africa, meaning that advantage has been lost.
Normally 200 full-time workers would have picked hundreds of tonnes of blueberries this year.
But Mr Thomson, whose team have been operating for 30 years, said the cost of growing, picking, packing and transporting the blueberries to the supermarket made that unviable.
He told BBC Scotland's Landward programme that blueberries were being imported from sub-tropical countries like Peru and South Africa which had developed new genetics.
"They can grow them at any time of the year, so this special season that Scotland had has disappeared.
"Instead of the high price bit of the season, it's the low price bit of the season.
"The labour in these countries costs a tenth of what it costs here and we can't compete."
In 1990
Pfft.
No?
Not much media coverage..
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/what_nasa_and_the_european_space_agency_are_admitting_but_the_media_are_failing_to_report_about_our_current_heat_wave.html