Jared Brown, of Gloucester Brewery, said the industry was being badly squeezed following a poor harvest.
He argues that the surplus from recent years will reduce the impact of this year's poor harvest.
The company blames the poor harvest in 2012 for the move, together with worries about this year's crop due to recent flooding.
As the situation in the north deteriorates, the Security Council warned of worsening humanitarian conditions exacerbated by drought, sporadic rains and poor harvest.
This meant she was unable to use the fertilizer, which led to a poor harvest of her maize crop, which meant less food for her children.
In commodities, crop prices rose sharply, with corn up more than 6% and sugar at a three-year high on fears of a poor harvest in some parts of the globe.
Andrew Watts, a wheat farmer and the NFU combinable crops board chairman, said farmers had been hoping for a kind autumn after a poor harvest in 2012, but this had not happened.
Many people have gone hungry in the past few months thanks to a poor harvest: instead of falling evenly through the 2004-05 growing season, the rains came all at once, mostly early on.
When the harvest is poor, the government imports rice from Vietnam and Thailand and the market price drops.
Much of Eastern Europe is fighting a losing battle to plant, grow and harvest amid poor soil conditions.
And if you have to sell low basis positions, you can harvest losses from poor performers to mitigate or neutralize the impact.
The World Food Programme's latest figures show that well over 10m people in southern Africa now need food aid after poor rains, a terrible harvest and mismanagement by some governments.
Once the molds get a foothold, poor storage conditions also promote their post-harvest growth on grain.
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In reality, many charter schools cater to the well-to-do over the poor, and are structured in such a way as to harvest the best students while leaving under-achievers behind in the public system.
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So far the October to January cocoa harvest in the African country has been strong, according to Laurent Pipitone, senior statistician at the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), "but the second part of the main harvest (January to March) is expected to be relatively poor, " thanks to the lack of rainfall between August and October of 2009.
Coming at the end of the harvest season, it is a period of relative prosperity for the poor country and feels like the subcontinent's version of Christmas.
But a mobile phone may be more useful to the poor than better food, since the phone may generate income during the next harvest failure, and good food will not.
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One problem with eradication operations such as the one in Uruzgan is that they tend to set up confrontations between armed men and poor farmers: the only American a farmer ever meets might be the one who is destroying his harvest, rather than someone who is building a school or a clinic.
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