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A supply chain involves a small number of stages, from a product being made until it gets to the shops for people to buy.<\/p>\n

If you take a loaf of bread as an example, first the grain is grown, harvested, milled and stored until it is ready to be taken to a factory.<\/p>\n

Those ingredients are used to bake and package the bread, which is taken to warehouses before eventually ending up on supermarket shelves.<\/p>\n

Each stage of that process will incur expenses such as transport and storage, and rising costs at any step could end up in the product you buy being more expensive.<\/p>\n

Last week, farmers and flour producers said they were adapting to the challenges of dealing with the earliest harvest for 50 years.<\/p>\n

And the National Farmers’ Union has warned there could be a shortage of certain food products if current drought conditions continue.<\/p>\n

More from Cambridgeshire:<\/b><\/p>\n

“One week of hot weather will not make a loaf of bread more expensive,” says Prof Manoj Dora, director of the Centre for Intelligent Supply Chains at Anglia Ruskin University, which has campuses in Cambridgeshire and Essex.<\/p>\n

But he says prices could rise if supplies of crops run out, largely because of how it would affect the very beginning of the supply chain.<\/p>\n

“We may see that meat, milk, eggs, and chicken will be impacted by [a lack of] animal feed,” he says.<\/p>\n

“Across different food products, prices could surge if we do not manage these things immediately.”<\/p>\n

Dora describes the UK’s supply chain as “resilient” so the effects of the heatwave may not be felt immediately.<\/p>\n

“We need to start thinking of the long term by reconfiguring our supply chain in terms of locations and transportation, and by supporting the farmers,” he adds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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