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| The last of our bananas |
Bananas are one of the favourite fruits of Australians. It’s a bit of a bother because the price has recently bounced around $11 per kilogram. This bleak price is blamed on the cyclone and floods north of Brisbane earlier this year. The bedraggled farmers battled the bloody weather in their Blundstones, but many felt beaten as they were bombarded by the blustery conditions. Sadly many of their budgets are bust and they fear they might go broke. Hopefully this beautiful part of the world will bounce back and become bountiful before that happens. These battlers don’t need any more burdens.
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| Screen captures from ABC24 |
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13 comments:
bananas! beautiful boadacious bountiful bananas.
(my clown name is la banan so I really like this post!)
Jan Morrison
Jan I love your sentence of B's!
$11 a kilo! I hope they bounce back soon.
happy "B" day
Wonderful B post! Great info and loved your use of b words.
Ha! Aren't you ambitious doing this on both blogs! It is fairly stunning what disasters can do to prices, eh? In the US, our current crisis is tomatoes--the frozen winter in the south doesn't usually happen, so our sources has a lot of the normal harvest ruined.
babygirl32, I'm missing them, way too expensive, but worse for the growers who have lost everything.
Kris, thankyou! glad you liked it
Hart: I think I need my head read! I think we somehow need to learn how to grow more of our own foods if possible.
Bananas, great fruit and wonderful sleeping medicine :) Thanks for dropping by, I look forward to coming back here soon.
Just stopped by from the A-Z Challenge!!
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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita had so many staples shoot up in cost, along with gas and electricity.
I will pray that things lighten up in all manner of ways for all of you! Thanks for visiting my blog and commenting. It meant a lot, Roland
I love banana smoothies banana bread, banana cake, etc., but not a fan of bananas on their own. Weird :P
I love bananas and drabbles.
Manzanita
Wanna buy a duck
Great topic for the "B". Bananas are expensive in Canada, too. 89 cents a lb. It's outrageous for something that mostly ends up as banana bread.
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