You may have to hold the cabbage in the corn beef and cabbage this year for Saint Patrick’s Day.
Growers are worried about early maturing in the crop leading to big shortages.
Chalk it down to climate change Unseasonably warm weather in Texas and Florida is damaging some St. Patrick’s Day plans.
Frank Schuster, president of McAllen, Texas-based Val Verde Vegetable Co. Inc. says early maturation is the issue.
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“We’re hearing that much of the cabbage planted for St. Pat’s is maturing earlier than planned due to the warm winter,” Schuster told The Packer magazine.
“The heavier supply this early is causing some sagging market prices this week and into next. It could also cause some supplies to be lighter than anticipated for the normal St. Pat’s slot.”
Experts say that the combination of lower supplies and higher prices could hurt overall supplies of cabbage.
“Demand is definitely stronger this year than last,” said Adam Lytch, operations manager at Raleigh based L&M COS.Inc,
Lytch said growers cut back on acreage this year after sluggish markets last year and demand has risen sharply.
No fear that there will be a potato shortage however.
“Business has been very brisk, They’re shipping ahead of schedule.” said Ted Kreis, marketing and communications director of the Northern Plains Potato Growers Association, East Grand Forks, N.D.
Read more: St. Patrick's Day recipes - corned beef and cabbage
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.johnshiel | Feb 18, 2013, 07:36 PM EST
I wonder which way the opinions are trending in the U>S> re manmade climate change... I used to think it w an important piece of intellctual credibility to cite it as reality. ow I see it as a monstrous hoax being prepetrated by cynics and belieed bygullible intellectual pretenders. There's a lot of mey and power and control for the taking with a concept like global warming/climate change...
seanomelb | Feb 18, 2013, 06:55 PM EST
Here we go again ed65 and his abortion?climate change conspiracy theory. Dear me mereflow the Fox talking points are hardly scientific proof. Climate change is all around you regardless of the cause,go take a trip on denile.
EphraimKibbey | Feb 17, 2013, 06:05 PM EST
Ed65 and merefalow - The same ad people who worked for the tobacco industry trying to keep sales up in the face of mounting evidence linking cigarettes to cancer now work for the petroleum industry trying to make fun of the greenhouse effect. Do you still smoke? Only those who still watch FOX News still refuse to believe in both Global Warming and the resulting Climate Change that we are experiencing now. "Hey Noah, how's the boat coming along? I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain - Hey wait, its getting sorta deep. glub, glub - Hey, GOOD FRIEND Noah, got room for one more?" There are none so blind as those who refuse to open their eyes.
AbeBird | Feb 17, 2013, 12:46 PM EST
Wonderful season of fresh, clean, delicious and cheap cabbage in Israel. Do not miss the opportunity.
Gaelicpiper | Feb 16, 2013, 09:16 PM EST
O'Shea, you are a fool if you believe that. If yu do not, you are a liar. Either way, you lose.
merefalow | Feb 16, 2013, 07:18 PM EST
seanomeld,i might have been mistaken for a cabbage patch kid when i was a kid,but i,m not as dumb as you to believe stupid old al gore and his scientificaly DISPROVED GLOBAL WARMING NONSENSE.Are they going to apologise and admit their lying propoganda now it has been disproved by real unbiased unbought un corrupted scientists who cant be bought by grants and bribes.
Ed65 | Feb 16, 2013, 06:43 PM EST
No I won't blame them for a glass of water. I will blame them for millions od murdered babies via abortion. Millions of people via Communist China and Soviet Union. I will blame them for the dissolution of families via their love of divorce, perpetual welfare programs. I will blame them for their invention and perpetuation of the drug culture - which this 47 year old dinosaur has seen destroy dozens of nieve friends and family. The left embraces and forments destruction.
seanomelb | Feb 16, 2013, 06:25 PM EST
Another dinosaur!! I suppose when you cannot find a glass of water you will find some reason to blame on the lefties.
Ed65 | Feb 16, 2013, 06:17 PM EST
More Leftist Lies. The writer took it upon himself to attribute the warm winter to Global Warming, oh I'm sorry I mean Climate Change. You see even the leftists realize that warming is easily disproven, so know they call it climate change. Get it - everthing can now be attributed to Change. Just like they used to be called Marxists, them Communists then Socialists than Liberals, now its progressives. Always keeping one step ahead of their destructive deceipt. By the way the JOURNALIST is the only one attributing it to Climate Change - all the growers said it was because of the warm winter. Thank you Mr O'Shea for enlightening us with your scientific expertise.
seanomelb | Feb 16, 2013, 04:46 PM EST
The anti- climate change diosaurs are out of the blocks again. I feel sad for the cabbage dolls and they are as about as knowledgeabale as mereflow on climate change.
Bocktherobber | Feb 16, 2013, 03:59 PM EST
Sluggish market in cabbage? Love it!
merefalow | Feb 16, 2013, 03:14 PM EST
please stop spreading this lying myth of climate change,there is no proven scientific proof that the weather is any different what it always has been for millenia,changeable and sometimes catastrophic,if its changing its not man made,but there are a lot of vested intrests spreading false propoganda,ie the hockey stick graph,the people who make the useless wind mills,the schamsters selling carbon credits,(worthless dont be conned)the landowners who profit from (the massively subsidised by you the tax payer for land rental)one amongst those landowners who owns devon and cornwall who uses the official secrets acts to cover up how much he is paid)for said rental.and on it goes,lie after distorted lie to raise more tax to fill the gap caused by the banksters,blame the motor car,(whose engines are now burning cleaner than they have ever been so they can impose toll roads and even more taxation on the helpless cash cow motorist,so only the rich will have access to the car free motorways.
Scrivner | Feb 16, 2013, 02:53 PM EST
Just goes to show how nature is self-regulating. Eating cabbage tends to produce excessive methane gas, methane gas is one of the components said to cause global warming, global warming, according to this article, has damaged the cabbage crop. Ergo, skip the unattainable cabbage and chill out!
Stiofain | Feb 16, 2013, 02:48 PM EST
I wonder what Paul Ryan and Bill O'Rielly think about climate warming now?
Bocktherobber | Feb 16, 2013, 02:26 PM EST
Sluggish market in cabbage? Love it!
jhmdeuce | Feb 16, 2013, 01:55 PM EST
We should skin a few liberals. All their brains are nothing but cabbage.
aoibhinn | Feb 16, 2013, 01:40 PM EST
The Irish do not eat corned beef and cabbage. Only Americans eat this, thinking it's what the Irish eat? Same as when they say St. Patty's Day. Misconceptions.
antoman | Feb 16, 2013, 12:56 PM EST
@ Searlit- Have you not seen on Irish news that we have been hoodwinked into eating donkeys and horses? Its happening in the UK too. Although the report of Muslims in prison being fed pork rather than a donkey or a horse was a little disturbing as pork is exactly what I want to consume and yet I'm fed donkeys and horses. I currently have a pot on the boil containing pigtails and turnip. To avoid eating donkeys and horses. I grew up on a farm in N.Cork so I know what a pigs tail looks like.
Searlit | Feb 16, 2013, 12:39 PM EST
Maybe they can start growing it in Iceland? @ antoman, usually I find your comments funny, but not about the donkeys & especially the horses.
antoman | Feb 16, 2013, 12:09 PM EST
Use lettuce or nettles. I've been eating donkeys and horses for some time now and never knew it. I imagine the same conspiratorial ploy could be used in America to convince people they are eating cabbage. You can't make a silk purse from a pigs ear they say. That may be true but has anyone tried making a silk purse from a donkey or horse ear?
Ms.Gail | Feb 16, 2013, 11:53 AM EST
I use frozen brussel sprouts anyway
like2tweet | Feb 16, 2013, 11:40 AM EST
tragedy! we need a White House save the cabbage day
Smyrnian | Feb 16, 2013, 10:51 AM EST
Perpetuating the corned beef and cabbage nonsense. No one ever heard of that in Ireland. It is in fact a Jewish recipe from the lower east side of NY from the late 1800's.
Porickseantuny | Feb 16, 2013, 10:42 AM EST
what the man said is that there is an over supply now. The warm spell has caused the crop to mature early in abundance. If you like cabbage, you gotta love global warming.
TheBetterCoug | Feb 16, 2013, 10:26 AM EST
No shortage of cabbage in my Northwest USA garden.