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News / Brittle US food supply chains need a rethink as weather takes its toll on crops

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Increasingly frequent extreme weather events and supply chain disruptions are affecting the flow of food to US markets, resulting in a rising call for fundamental changes.

In May, cherry growers in the US Pacific north-west were on course for a bumper crop, but the heat that ...

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