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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 — what's new! but the question isn't competely straightforward for their opponents either. after starting this week ...

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 minister's number two, and fellow brexiteer, is here. but how would labour approach those brexit talks? the...

Them in the store. how high will food price inflation go? i think we're 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 don't 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. they've also struggled to get people to pick them. if farmers aren't growi...

Until we actually encounter them in the store. how high will food price inflation go? i think we're 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 don't 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. they've also struggled to get people to pick t...

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 fruit and veg and correspondingly increasing our production of the fresh fruit and veg. we have to t...