While this blog is mainly about climate and its impacts on agriculture, sometimes the news gets in the way and we look a little more broadly about food. I thought this article from Bloomberg about what folks in the UK would eat if Brexit held up imports. No daily tea? It made me think about how eating only locally grown food in the Southeast would affect our diet in the Southeast. We are in better shape than most parts of the US because we get a lot of food from Florida, and our production encompasses a lot of the year, compared to Michigan, where I grew up, for example. Still, our morning coffee might be a thing of the past if we shut down the board to imports. I am glad that agriculture is an international enterprise!
