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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Sarah Butler

Supermarkets agree to accept smaller veg from rain-soaked UK farms

View looking down at a machine and two men harvesting sprouts in a water-logged field
Brussels sprouts are harvested in a flooded field at TH Clements near Boston, Lincolnshire, on Thursday. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

Supermarkets are agreeing to accept smaller than usual cauliflowers, sprouts, cabbages and leeks as farmers struggle to cope with poor weather and flooding around the UK.

The move to keep fresh British produce on the shelves comes after heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding, which started in late autumn and continued through Christmas and the new year, affecting growers mainly in Lincolnshire, East Anglia, Cornwall and Scotland.

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