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Glasshouse production of tomatoes here. a more enlightened approach to labour. all things the nfu will say they have called on for a while. we need to move on. i want to give thomasina some warning many of you will have heard the environment secretary talking about turnips and cherishing our home—grown veg. your challenge for the end of the programme is to come up with a tasty turnip suggestion for our viewers! the tories are highly likely to have a torrid few days on brexit — whats new! but...

Of the reasons behind this... empty shelves, and limits on what we can buy in the shops. the environment secretary ended up suggesting we save our home—grown veg instead. it is important to make sure that we cherish the specialisms that we have in this country. a lot of people would be eating turnips right now. tempted by turnips? the bigger question for us this morning — can rishi sunak tempt his party and the northern irish unionists to back his likely deal? dominic raab, the prime ministe...

Them in the store. how high will food price inflation go? i think were almost at the peak. we think that food price inflation is going to rise to something between 17% and 19% annually in the first part of 2023. and then food price inflation will start to drop off fairly quickly. shortages dont help. bad weather has disrupted supplies of fresh fruit and veg, which we rely on from overseas at this time of year. meanwhile, british growers have been planting fewer crops because of the soaring energ...

Until we actually encounter them in the store. how high will food price inflation go? i think were almost at the peak. we think that food price inflation is going to rise to something between 17% and 19% annually in the first part of 2023. and then food price inflation will start to drop off fairly quickly. shortages dont help. bad weather has disrupted supplies of fresh fruit and veg, which we rely on from overseas at this time of year. meanwhile, british growers have been planting fewer crops ...

Nowhere to go. when the going gets tough, and we have seen inflation in production costs in excess of 20%, there have been the margins in the past four or five years, typically one to 2%, to build up any surplus to offset the impact of recent inflation. what we seeing now is growers are turning their back on fresh produce production and preferring to grow wheat which is less expensive to grow. there is risk involved. all of this, at a time when we should be increasing hours consumption of fresh ...

Start to drop off fairly quickly. shortages dont help. bad weather has disrupted supplies of fresh fruit and veg, which we rely on from overseas at this time of year. meanwhile, british growers have been planting fewer crops because of the soaring energy and fertiliser costs. theyve also struggled to get people to pick them. if farmers arent growing as much produce here, if theyre growing different crops or theyre just not planting stuff here because its uneconomic, its loss—making, then well ...

In her nations colours and sitting on the rocks of carmarthenshire, where she now lives. the daily mail leads with comments made by the queen consort, about changes being made to roald dahl�*s classic books. the paper says she urged writers to fight for their "freedom of expression". the daily mirror has gone with the headline "let them eat turnips" in reference to comments made by environmental secretary therese coffey on the current fruit and veg shortage. the sun has a "showbiz exclusive" o...

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For uk producers, if they can make those figures stack up, to produce more food here domestically. we want to try and support them in doing that. the shelves in the dairy aisle of one major uk supermarket get filled with milk created by abi readers cows, but business is hard. climate change, the war in ukraine, the lack of labour, the price of fertiliser and the rising cost of the feed these animals eat are all having an impact. there are empty sheds out there that should be growing fruit and ve...

Mexicos former security chief is found guilty of taking bribes — in return for helping drug dealers. and — empty food shelves in the uk — why are some supermarkets having to limit sales of fruit and veg? live from our studio in singapore — this is bbc news. its newsday. welcome to the programme. we have a tale of two presidents for you this hour from the us and russia. well get to the american presidentjoe biden in a moment — but first — russian leader vladimir putin. hes announced h...