BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 12:51:00
The cost of living and it comes as the cost of living and it comes as the government says it needs farmers to grow more to limit our reliance on food from abroad. andrew sinclair reports. 0n andrew sinclair reports. on his farm in mid norfolk, andy allen shows me one of his fields of unpicked asparagus. unpicked because he couldn't get enough pickers. we would couldn't get enough pickers. - would normally need between 90, 95 star. the maximum we had 75 but a lot of the season we were dealing with around 65. we would have expected to help this 150— to— 50 tonnes this year. we are 30% down. ...