Great news, kids! There’s a broccoli shortage – and growers say it’ll soon be missing from supermarket shelves if it doesn’t start raining soon

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Great news, kids! There’s a broccoli shortage – and growers say it’ll soon be missing from supermarket shelves if it doesn’t start raining soon

If your children aren’t enjoying the heatwave already, they will now – the high temperatures and lack of rain are causing a shortage of broccoli.

Growers say if it doesn’t start raining soon, the iron-rich vegetable that many children love to hate will soon be missing from supermarket shelves.

David Simmons, from Riviera Produce, one of the country’s largest producers of broccoli, said: ‘We need a lot of rain and cooler conditions to keep these crops going through the summer, otherwise the situation will get progressively worse and we could see a real shortage.

The high temperatures and lack of rain are causing a shortage of broccoli, growers say
The high temperatures and lack of rain are causing a shortage of broccoli, growers say

‘These crops need a lot of water regularly and we simply have not had it.

‘Unless there’s a change in the weather soon, it will have an impact on availability and quality.’

There will be no help from growers in Europe, with conditions across the Continent leading to a widespread low broccoli yield.

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