British plums feel squeeze.FRUIT growers are finding it hard to sell this year's bumper crop In agriculture, a bumper crop refers to a particularly good harvest yielded for a particular crop. Example: "With all the rain we've had over the last few months, we are expecting a bumper crop this year. of plums because supermarkets are favouring imported produce which have a higher profit margin, farmers have warned. The National Farmers' Union said good weather had delivered a "vintage year vintage year n. 1. The year in which a vintage wine is produced. 2. A year of outstanding achievement or success. vintage year n it's been a vintage year for plays → " for plums and farms had hundreds of tonnes picked and ready to go into shops. But despite recent calls from the Government for farmers to produce more food and supermarkets claiming to support British seasonal food, some major retailers have put in orders of just single figures of tonnes, according to the NFU NFU National Farmers Union (Denver, CO and Washington, DC) NFU National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales NFU No First Use NFU Norwegian Farmers' Union NFU North Florida University . An Asda spokeswoman said more than a third of all of the plums sold in its stores were British grown and the company worked with up to seven UK growers at any one time. It was also offering British plums on its pounds 1 Rollback campaign. |
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