Lettuce prices up?

Central Australian growers will be feeling the pinch of increased power and water prices at the start of the new financial year says ABC Rural. Northern Territorians will be paying the first instalment of a 25 per cent power and water price hike. Lettuce grower Mo McCosker says he'll have to pass the costs on. "It's just going to have to go to the customers, that's the unfortunate part about it," he says. "If they're going to bang the prices up, what else do we do? It's either that or we get out of the business altogether. If we can't cut our butt clear, you end up saying, what are you doing it for?"