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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. she's 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. it's 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? it's — it's quite extraordinary. i don'...

my guest today is minette batters. she farms right here, she's 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. it's 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? it's — it's quite extraordinary. i don't think, in my lifetime, i've ever faced into anything like the cost inflation tha...

Over 150% higher. so, of course, all of these costs with production, whether that be feed costs, energy costs, fuel costs, someone has got to pay for that. now, there's a limit to what consumers can afford to pay and then, you've got the whole supply chain — you've got the retailer, the packer — so it's about getting a fair return, effectively, for farmers and growers to keep them producing the food that we want. the economist magazine just a couple of months ago looked at the income of cereal farmers across the country and they reckoned that their income had risen more than 68% in the las...