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Comment: Government should put country before Party
National media attention is focused on the Conservative Party leadership election, despite the fact that only 150,000 party members have a vote in the contest. Meanwhile, as the Bank of England warns of recession, the rudderless...
Comment: Can Conservatives mend rift with agriculture?
There won’t be many in the agricultural industry sorry to see the end of the Johnson premiership. But will his successor be any better for the sector? Johnson’s mendacity in promising everything to everyone was ultimately his...
Comment: Putting Ince fertiliser plant closure into context
The recent decision by CF Industries to close one of its UK fertiliser factories at Ince and consolidate production at Billingham, reduces the UK to a single ammonium nitrate (AN) manufacturing facility. The decision has caused some...
Comment: Government must lead on farm costs crisis
The UK agri-food chain is experiencing seismic changes in farm input availability and costs - and yet government seems remarkably unconcerned. The highest rate of inflation for 30 years, caused by post pandemic recovery factors, the...
Comment: Tipping point for the global agrifood chain?
This editorial was going to discuss the gap between Defra’s funding of food production and environmental measures, following George Eustice’s hapless performance at the recent NFU conference. But that already seems like ancient...
Industry can’t absorb agrifood inflation
Rising energy and commodity price inflation must be passed on to consumers, not absorbed at primary producer level, if economic damage to a changing UK farming sector is to be avoided. The last six months have seen unprecedented...