The managing director of wholesale bakery Fosters says he is seeing 'the biggest wheat shortage I have ever witnessed in my career' and by February Brits will see a massive hike in the price of bread
John Foster, managing director of wholesale bakery Fosters in Barnsley, said the sector was in the grip of “the biggest wheat shortage I have ever witnessed in my career.”“We are seeing the price of wheat shooting up,” Mr Foster told the BBC.Rising global demand has sent the price of bread wheat up by nearly 27% in the past year, while other costs continue to increase including fuel for transport and gas used in baking ovens.
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