Don’t do this to us, climate change The price of products made with wheat is expected to spike, putting the price of a pint at risk. Bread, beer, and biscuits all now risk getting more expensive, which is truly devastating to all the comfort-eating, pub-loving, non-coeliacs out there. It comes after an unusually wet winter and autumn meant farmers couldn’t sow their fields as planned, and then crops that did manage to get planted were ruined due to flooding.
Today’s new data was obtained by analysing analysed the crop area forecasts from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board as well as Government yield data. The warning comes after a win for biscuit lovers in the UK’s latest inflation figures, as they were among foods to see a drop in price. Meat and crumpets were also cheaper, but it seems this help with the cost of living may have been a blip.