| Comment | even ignoring the organic part, a farm in Lanarkshire is going to have about a fifth the yield of an equivalent farm area in the south of spain, due to reduced growing season/temperatures/sunlight at our latitude
compound that with the now incredibly high cost of seasonal labour thanks to brexit
this is fundamentally why almost none of your supermarket veg (other than things suited to our climate like leeks and broccoli in season) comes from the UK, it's all from the mediterranean (or africa/south america out of season) - the increased yield more than compensates for the shipping costs |
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