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Cool as… You have to admire the Dutch – with cucumber sales through the floor following Europe’s recent E coli crisis, they’re coming back fighting with the launch of a cucumber smoothie.
The knock-on effect is that orders for cucumbers from Spain and Holland have been cancelled altogether, or at best reduced. For cucumbers from Holland, the obvious place to look is in the UK – we already take large volumes of cucumbers at this time of the year. Extra cucumbers will be “dumped” here rather than marketed, and this will drop the price paid to the grower. These price reductions, if they occur, are unlikely to affect the price in the shops but they do have a massive effect on the price paid to growers in the UK.
Derek Hargreaves, Horticultural Consultancy Ltd (UK)
E. coli is sinking cucumber growers (by Euronews)
