will farmers pass on to the consumers, the money they have save by not having to water their crops?

Answer 1

Its the supermarkets who make the money,
most independent farmers are struggling comparatively, the supermarkets agree on a price before harvesting, and thats it. In bad years its the farmer who loses out . Remember the disastrous spud harvest about 20 years ago, they went up from 90p to 10 pounds a bag, half cwt, within weeks, and they never came down for years. Someone made a fortune there and it wasn't the farmer. Give em a break for a while, lets aim our flak elsewhere.

Answer 2

FYI, speaking as a farmer, farmers usually rank very low on the profit margin. It's the middleman, (the people who actually market the product) that make the most money. We milked cows for many years but finally sold out because we were actually losing money. Did you know that the dairymen who produce the milk, get less than half of what a gallon of milk costs in the store? The same applies to other products.
The farmers always get the bad rap for price increases. The corporate farms are driving out the small farms and if development keeps going like it is, someday there won't be any farmland. Who will feed the world then? Maybe the government will import all of its food. So to answer your question about the savings from not watering crops, the answer is no. They will be trying to catch up from the drought we've been in for the last two years.

Answer 3

Weather is unpredictable and seasonal. In other words it is variable. Prices of produce are calculated well in advance of harvesting and are relatively stable except in the event of a disaster or drought when they will, naturally rise, The reason for this is that most farmers live by borrowing money from banks to exist during the growing and sowing seasons and also in winter. These are called 'Produce Advances' and the bank needs to guarantee repayment of the loan so ensures that the farmer will have set a price that will be sufficient to pay the loan and make his profit for re-investment. Too much rain will damage crops by flooding and killing plants off and costs may be incurred in hiring equipment to pump away excess water so rather than saving money by not needing to water crop they may actually lose. Excess rain will also wash away pesticides and herbicides designed to protect the crop and thus need re-application when dryer.

Answer 4

It would be nice if farmers could set the prices on the food they produced and could pass off savings as well as passing off increases costs like other industries, like car companies for example, but unfortunately it doesn't work that way for farmers. We take our product to market and have to take what ever the market price happens to be. If it costs either more or less to produce our crop this year, we can't demand a higher price. They just wouldn't buy it at that price. The prices you are paying in the grocery stores for food has very little to do with the prices farmers are paid for their crops.

Answer 5

Don't be daft. If you kept in touch with reality you would know that any money to be made will be made by the government, not the farmers. Money saved will probably mean the farmers having to take less from the people they supply while the fat cats still take their excessive cut. Why do you think so many farms have had to diversify in the last few years. I hope I'm not around to see our countryside go to rack and ruin, because that's the way it will be heading if we don't get enough young farmers back on the land!!!!!

Answer 6

Nope alot of farmers here have lost alot of there crops here from too much rain... they need the money in case of a bad season or for what has happened here... It rained so much here that some of the crops were flooded... then as the water subsides the crops are still soaked and start to mildew then the crop is a loss. I am in Texas

Answer 7

My barley is flat with a chance of ergot forming so no sale if its bad, it would be dumped, potatoes are rotting in the ground, also rhysotonia and blight forming, pea viners are getting stuck and being pulled out with crawlers, which will take many years to get the land back into production, and if you do get some good veg its put on promotion at a 50% cut to the producer, asparagus firms are going bankrupt without paying us what they owe because of this, Oh for a hot one next year. With turnovers in excess of 200k and profits under 10k, with no savings or house and 63 years old I have nothing to look forward too, that's why farmers are the top of the list for committing suicide.........Suffolk Farmer, 250 years in the family.

Answer 8

The cost of running a farm is phenomenal. I know a milk farmer that only works seven days a week but works on other farms to make ends meet, which they don't. And as other people have said, water damages as well as enhances growth. If they really can save on the cost, good luck to them.

Answer 9

No. Never have, never will. Everyone in the supply chain of produce from the farmer to the supermarket you buy in will find another excuse to maintain or raise prices. The farmer actually gets the least amount of money.

Answer 10

did you know that the reason the prices keep going up is not because of the farmers its because of the goverment they need to make the money back that they gave to the farmers for the drought relife programe just look at the price of banannas a couple of months ago the farmers still got there usual amount of money per tone but it was the goverment that raised the price because they were worried everyone would run out or them so increase the demand raise the price i think its a load of crap my self