July 2007
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Sun 29 Jul 2007
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By Victoria Bone
BBC News
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Livestock have drowned and their winter feed has been destroyed
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As the waters slowly recede, experts say the floods will leave a disaster for British farming in their wake.
Farmers’ livelihoods have been devastated across the UK by the June and July deluges.
And now the impact looks set to hit the rest of us in the form of food shortages and raised prices.
Peter Davis, managing director of fruit and vegetable distributor Davis Worldwide, says the public will feel the pinch and see gaps on their supermarket shelves until at least next April.
“I don’t want to exaggerate the problem we’ve got, but if I say it’s a crisis, I’ll be telling it exactly like it is,” he told BBC Radio 4. (more…)
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