Too some degree it can be very true. But everything is relative. A farmer’s tea in a bad year can be better than another farmer’s tea from a good year. A farmer’s lower grade tea can be better than another farmer’s higher grade tea. A farmer’s tea in a drought, high-price year can be less expensive than another farmer’s tea from a low-price year.

@xavier lack of rain has got to be true, because that sort of thing is easily confirmed on the web. I guess less tea drives up price.

@xavier, I don’t know but I think it’s true; it rained and that can drive market prices up. However, how much it drives prices up, that I don’t know. I also don’t know how much the re-seller then adds on as mark-up. The standard mark-up, or more because it is now a harder to get the commodity? Interesting thought.

It is probably both. Prices going up because of rain and some extra because people expect the price to go up…