It also lowered its profit forecast for the year, as poor sales in Latin America and Europe continue to drag down earnings, and scrapped its dividend.Ford made a pre-tax profit of $8.6 billion last year, its best in a decade, handing its union workers a record $8,800 each in profit share.
It will have to last if next year's crop is as poor as that of 2012.
The advice comes amid warnings that Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador could require levels of humanitarian aid not seen since the aftermath of hurricane Mitch 16 years ago, as poor harvests and rapid increases in the prices of staple items threaten a food crisis.
"That first-half display was as poor as we've been in a year," said Dyche.
Home cooking has declined most among those whose food budgets are under the most pressure, especially families earning under £25,000 a year, as poorer consumers opt for cheap and "filling" prepared foods on offer in supermarket price promotions rather than fresh produce.
We were as poor as church mice.
Tenants had opposed that levy, which the board had imposed for the last seven years, as a "poor tax," unfairly burdening those least able to pay.
Sensitivity over criticism of the monarchy has increased in recent years as the poor health of the country's 84-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej has raised concerns about a smooth succession.
After four marriages, numerous affairs and reckless spending, she is now broke, suffering from breast cancer and faces living out the rest of her years as a poor, sick, old woman.
Rousseau, the son, then lived for six years as a poor relation in his mother's family, patronized and humiliated, until he, too, at the age of 16, fled from Geneva to live the life of an adventurer and a Roman Catholic convert in the kingdoms of Sardinia and France.
