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I would say that producing food is a public good, and indeed, if you talk to economists, they will say, "well, food security is a public good, "but food production isn't." we have got to make sure we have the same approach for delivering for the environment as we have for delivering our food, and if we have a market failure situation, you know, the direct support payment was one way for farmers — if the market fell off a cliff, don't forget your office is outside — that they would be able to keep feeding their livestock and keep feeding theirfamilies, so there are very, very challenging pa...

Batters keeps Boris off the front pages 2023-04-05

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Well, i don't think food has been recognised as a public good. i would say that producing food is a public good, and indeed, if you talk to economists, they will say, "well, food security is a public good, but food production isn't." we have got to make sure we have the same approach for delivering for the environment as we have for delivering our food, and if we have a market failure situation, you know, the direct support payment was one way for farmers — if the market fell off a cliff, don't forget the offices outside — that they would be able to keep feeding their livestock and keep fe...

Last year it was claimed by the nfu tens of thousands of pounds of crops were left on the ground and wasted because there was not the workforce to harvest them. you presumably tell government ministers that, have they responded? i tell them that regularly. look, we have gone from 10,000 to 115,000 with a potential uplift. the visas offered to seasonal workers coming specifically to do farm work? absolutely. but we don't simply have enough people who are unemployed here to do the jobs, this is holding our whole economy back, it's huge for agriculture but for the whole supply chain as well. when...