Ridiculous. And then a whole new level of ridiculous. 0.1% over on moisture. £8.19 a tonne to dry it, and 3.8% of the weight taken off. This in a year where millions of tonnes have been harvested, well below 15% If you ever wanted evidence of how one sided this supply chain is, here it is. 🫤 #BritishFarming #UKFarming

Cheaper food on the shelves. British farmers undercut by imports produced to standards we're not allowed to use. What could possibly go wrong. 🫤 @UKLabour #FoodSecurity #BritishFarming #NoFarmersNoFood xitter.cf/FarmersGuardian/status…

I do not support increasing food prices for consumers. My comments were about the need for a fairer and more consistent supply chain for British farmers, not about making bread or other everyday food unaffordable. As many people in the sector understand, the farmgate value of wheat is only a small part of the retail price of a loaf, so it is simply wrong to suggest that improving returns to farmers would mean food prices doubling. The same principle applies across much of the food chain. The Guardian article has taken a comment about trade policy and farmgate returns and presented it in a misleading way. My point was that government policy has the power to materially affect the price farmers receive, and that British agriculture has been undermined for years by unfair competition, poor policy, and a lack of supply chain fairness. I believe consumers deserve affordable food, farmers deserve a fair return, and the country deserves a food system that is more resilient, consistent, and less reliant on imports produced to different standards. Reform’s agriculture manifesto has not yet been published, so any suggestion that this article reflects settled party policy is speculative.

Farmers saw this within seconds of the budget announcement. Wider business so busy dealing with other economic disasters like NIC’s etc seemed to miss this and it WILL CRIPPLE this countries economy @RachelReevesMP committed economic suicide in her budget ☹️

Please sign this petition to help save family farms & the British countryside from becoming owned by huge faceless offshore corporations with no interest in growing for or caring for local environment This is so important, it’s British farmers “closure of the mines” moment, the impact on rural communities would be devastating

and what do @NFUtweets plan to do about this please ?