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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Australia
Posts: 562
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yeah, the climate is good for growing them esopecially up in queensland...bought one today they are around $2.28 atm for small non-haas ones (which I think is about $1.75 US with exchange rate) but they are in season atm.
Main reason for a lot of produce being expensive is the massive drought we are in now (or for the last few years really)...they are even talking about building a desalination plant or waste water conversion plant for Sydney and Brisbane due to water supplies being so low.
Take that sort of drought and move it further west where it's drier ot start with and things are really bad for irrigation crops and stock so we end up with much higher prices now.
The final nail is that we have essentially 2 national super market chains that are price makers that dictate the price to producers and undercut local small markets and it's a bad situation for wanting to eat good and healthily.
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