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of labour and a demand that farmers produce more at less cost to the environment. my guest today is minette batters. she farms right here. shes also president of the national farmers�* union. as a society, are we asking our farmers for the impossible? minette batters, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. its a great pleasure to be on yourfarm. and the sun is shining and, in some ways, you would think the sun would be shining on farmers. food prices are spiralling higher. you...

my guest today is minette batters. she farms right here, shes also president of the national farmers�* union. as a society, are we asking our farmers for the impossible? minette batters, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. its a great pleasure to be on yourfarm. and the sun is shining and, in some ways, you would think the sun would be shining on farmers. food prices are spiralling higher. you would think that would be good news for farmers. is it? its — its quite extraor...

The previous year, been paying effectively £200 a ton and they were paying £1,000 a ton for nitrogen fertiliser, so they were facing huge input costs. but then, of course, youve got your poultry farmers, youve got your livestock, your dairy farmers whove to pay a much higher price for that feed because the global commodity price, as you say, skyrocketed, all driven by russia invading ukraine. yeah. when it comes to the biggest obstacles to farmers today — youve talked about the shocks of cov...