Der Landwirtschaftsberater von Nigel Farage fordert eine Verdoppelung der Weizenpreise

He’s probably right but obviously it also aids Reform UK now funding is coming under pressure!

Arable farmers are being absolutely squeezed. The only thing they have made money off this year has been straw.

The biggest issue is we have a government that have undervalued agri in the first year of their government. Brought in poorly thought out taxation. Removed subsidies which offset low prices and now want more focus on environmental payments while allowing the inport of basically anything

Edit: just to add they do seem to have got their act together with the appointment of Emma Reynolds as Defra sec. Steve Reed was awful

Farming in the UK is a complete shitshow.

We have somehow created a system where the state heavily subsidises mass environmental destruction, regularly giving millionaires massive amounts of tax breaks and direct fiscal transfers in a manner that is highly regressive, for little to no public benefit. The result has been rich people buying up farms to use as tax wheezes, crowding out most non-millionaires from being able to set themselves up in farming.

I am increasingly of the view that we should just go full Kiwi, remove all subsidies and protections, let the majority of farms fail, and then support new farmers coming in that think they can actually compete.

Reform nonsense aside I do wish there was some hands across the aisle stuff between struggling urban and rural groups. As a born and bred city boy my impression is that farmers only ever turn out for their own issues and otherwise seem comfortable kicking down on urban populations (certainly with their voting patterns). We don’t turn out for their issues either although the disdain doesn’t seem to go both ways quite so much. Either way, supply chains and corporate gouging hurt us all, there should be space for solidarity there at least.

Do you really think those who want to do this to their own country and people are truly patriotic?

Isn’t this enough to understand that their entire political strategy is about forming a government, that is, they want power, and that they don’t care about the people at all?

I would be interested in seeing a proper breakdown of the profits, and costs for a bag of plain flour. We already know it’s not the famer by a long way that takes the biggest slice of the profits, but I would also like to see the costs associated with getting that bag on the supermarket shelves. My guess is the miller/processor takes a large chunk, and they’re not some family run, wind powered mill.

> „Trade policy could double wheat price over night, job done! It’s really not hard.”

This from the party who were talking about DOGE-style savings when in government, and who then found pretty much zero savings to be made and instead decided to raise council tax.