July 2008 - Prices serve as a guide only - actual prices will depend on volume, availability, quality and supply. Contact the food and farming department for lists of buyers.
| Horticulture | Price |
| Potatoes | 55-120p per kg |
| Carrots | 60p per kg |
| Cucumbers | 70-90p each |
| Cabbage (pointed) | 50-70p per head |
| Spinach (perpetual) | 155-400p per kg |
| French Beans | 300-500p per kg |
| Beetroot | 60-120p per bunch |
| Lettuce (Round) | 30-80p each |
| Lettuce (Gem) | 45-60p each |
| Lettuce (Cos) | 45-75p each |
| Lettuce (Batavia) | 45-88p each |
| Lettuce (Lollo) | 45-80p each |
| Lettuce (Crisp) | 54-80p each |
| Lettuce (Oakleaf) | 45-88p each |
| Chard | 160-250p per kg |
| Onions | 60-110p per kg |
| Courgettes | 100-200p per kg |
| Tomatoes (round) | 180-275 per kg |
| Tomatoes (cherry) | 300-400p per kg |
| Broad Beans | 140-330p per kg |
| Garlic (green) | 45-65p per kg |
| Fennel | 130-155p per kg |
Ex-farm prices are the gross price, not including packing, haulage etc
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HDRA market update: July 2008
At least the recent warm weather has got crops going and the season seems much better now than it looked a few weeks ago. Trade appears down for most this year and not just in the summer holidays. Many comments on the struggle to shift lettuce, despite the advent of summer, with prices as low as 30p. Seems to be lots of it around. In contrast it is reported that conventional lettuce prices are holding up.
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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