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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...

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 wou...

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...

costs, shortages of labour, and a demand that farmers produce more at less cost to the environment. my guest today as minette batters, she farmers right here she is also president of the national farmers�* union of england and wales. as a society are we asking ourfarmers for the impossible? minette batters, welcome to hardtalk.- impossible? minette batters, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for havin: welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. _ welcome to hardtalk. thank you for hav...

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 forfarmers, is it? its quite extraordinary. i dont ...

On the farms, they remain in debt for months, if not years. what responsibility do you and your members take for these people who come here and live in such debt? well, for the seasonal workers scheme, they — last year and the previous year, the payment rate was set above our own national living wage, so actually, you had people coming here that were being paid more than the top of our national living wage. this year, it is an equilibrium across both. so, its really important — we are a high...

They are earning on the farms, they remain in debt for month if not years. what responsibility do you and your members take for these people who come here and live in such debt? for the seasonal workers scheme, they, last year and the previous year, the payment rate was set above our own national living wage, you have people coming here that were being paid more than the top of our national living wage, this year it is an equilibrium across both. it is really important, we are a highly regulated...

Farm leaders have expressed their concern that fruit and veg growers will struggle to find the labour they need this spring, after one of the main labour

Defra admits to 'challenging year' for horticulture labour and confirms expansion plan is possible - from HortWeek

Visa schemes like seasonal workers scheme for agriculture will now be allowed to bring over extended members of theirfamily allowed to bring over extended members of their family from ukraine as well which will bring a few thousand more people into the scope of the scheme, but i expect priti patel to be in parliament in the next couple of hours and i think she will potentially get a rough ride from the opposition and from her own backbenchers because concern about the speed of the system and jus...