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Therese Coffey booed by farmers after refusing to accept food shortage failure

‘We can’t control the weather in Spain’, says enviornment secretary

The Independent UK · Feb 22, 2023

Asda and Morrisons fruit and veg rationing: All we know as other stores deny shortages

A combination of bad weather and transport problems in Africa and Europe has seen UK supermarket shelves left bare of tomatoes, as well as dwindling stocks of some other fresh produce

Daily Mirror · Feb 22, 2023

We went to supermarkets across Greater Manchester in the hunt for tomatoes... and it felt like the Crystal Maze

'I think there are going to be challenges on availability of some food items'

Manchester Evening News · Feb 21, 2023

Britain’s farmers battered by Brexit fallout and rising costs, says union

Farmers’ union president Minette Batters to say ‘volatility, uncertainty and instability are greatest risks to farm businesses’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2023

Taken for granted: rural vote up for grabs if Labour can make hay

Countryside feels let down by 13 years of Tory rule but other parties will not pick up votes by default

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2023

Starmer to make EU trade and standards pledge as Tories ‘give up on farmers’

Exclusive: In address to NFU conference on Tuesday, Labour leader will make his pitch to the rural community

The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2023

UK risks ‘disastrous’ food scandal due to lax post-Brexit border controls – NFU chief

Minette Batters accuses ministers of ‘dereliction of duty’ in failing to ensure safety of agricultural imports

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2023

Farmers’ union called UK environment targets ‘irrational’ and ‘unachievable’

NFU raised questions over water pollution, tree planting and rewilding targets, according to documents

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2023

Post-Brexit £1,000 farming payments ‘too little, too late’, says NFU

Environmental cash incentives part of government scheme to replace EU common agricultural policy

The Guardian - UK · Jan 5, 2023

UK ‘sleepwalking’ into shortages: What is being rationed?

The National Farmers’ Union is urging the Government to step in to help farmers with soaring costs but eggs are not the only item being rationed

Evening Standard · Dec 7, 2022