South- west Cornwall had a mild start to the winter which brought on the cauliflower production earlier than usual.
“It’s been a difficult winter, we were cutting a lot of our December variety in November, and the January varieties in December. Then we had some unseasonably cold weather in January which put the February crop back to where it should be which left a bit of a gap this month, we still had some product but less than we would expect,” said Richard Trevennen from Southern England Farms. “It hasn’t done any damage to the crop though.”
“Other areas such as the Isle of Wight and a small part of Pembrokeshire had similar weather to Cornwall.”
Demand for all vegetables has been high since the first lockdown, “Regardless of whether its Savoy cabbage, calabrese, all the summer lines really, the demand has lessened a bit now but it is still strong and the processor who we sell cabbage to are still taking good orders.”
SEF also exported cauliflower up until the last couple of weeks when the supply became short, Richard expects to start the export again in a couple of weeks.
For more information:
Richard Trevennen
Southern England Farms
Tel: +44 1736 850 066
richard@sefltd.com
www.sefltd.com