Vegetables to get smaller and more expensive due to hot weather, farmers warn
This year's harvest could be the worst on record due to the exceptionally dry spring and summer.
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"I think we're going to see shrinkflation."
— Tim O'Malley , Executive
"At the start of spring farmers were hopeful of a better year, but the dry April and July and record-breaking heat have left farmers facing down the barrel of a third awful harvest in a row."
— Tom Lancaster , Academic
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This year's harvest could be the worst on record due to the exceptionally dry spring and summer.
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