Horticulture	Price
Potatoes	45-60p per kg
Cauliflower	60-70p per head
Spring greens	63-110p per head
White cabbage	80-90p per head
Round cabbage	70p per head
Beetroot (loose)	75-95p per kg
Lettuce (Gems, doubles)	65p each
Lettuce (Oakleaf)	63-85p each
Leeks	150-175p per kg
Purple sprouting	250-290p per kg
Radish	55-60p per kg
Rhubarb	200-300p per kg

Ex-farm prices are the gross price, not including packing, haulage etc
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HDRA market update: April 2008
The market for lettuce seems good. Autumn sown broad beans, the next crop in line are looking good. The weather has been ideal for drilled crops but also for the weed seed bank. It has been a very slow start to the year so far and some crops have suffered some wind damage.
Phil Sumption HDRA

News:

Low prices force farmers to give up on cauliflowers
Growers of the vegetable in the UK say it is no longer a viable crop. Farmers receive 18 pence per cauliflower when each head costs up to 35p to produce and many look set to abandon it altogether. Charlie Hicks, a greengrocery chain owner, said that the problem lay in the control that supermarkets wield over price, "Supermarkets have an absurd amount of power. They push prices down and something's got to give. What a tragedy it would be if cauliflowers disappeared because of the supermarkets."
The Independent (30 Jan, p.17)

Agricultural red tape 'driving vegetable varieties to extinction'
Some 98% of our vegetable varieties have disappeared over the past century and regulations are hastening the decline, Garden Organic warned today. According to Garden Organic, 95 per cent of the vegetables we eat now come from just 20 species of plants threatening diversity, and consequently the security of our food. Remaining traditional species from the UK and abroad are facing extinction due to EU regulations, which ban the sale of seeds unless the variety is registered on a national or EU list.
The Independent (8 Dec, p.14)

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