Making the pennies go further

With the constant rain UK Farmers will be having a bad time.

Not only have crops not grown well, they have rotted in the ground. Furthermore the fact that artificial fertilisers have been used for so long means the soil has little humus to bind it together and the heavy machinery used these days is not coping at all well with the mud that easily created. Even worse some local potatoe farmers are loosing all their crop when they come to store them through blight. I hear that some farmers have had this happen for the third year running and are considering giving up.

Thus old potatoes are going up in price and new crops will be expensive. What we can do is to discretely buy rice (brown keeps longest) and pasta to provide the carbohydrates that we all need.

Any other suggestions?

I suggest that we need the best advice possible and government strategies for planning for the future.