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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 8088515" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>they only have to say, 'reigning in prices', and everyone will believe it.</p><p>but you can guarantee their profit margin doesn't lose out.</p><p></p><p>successive government's, have followed a cheap food policy, with very little concern about farming in the UK, unless a 'weather', or similar event, then we are heroes. But that policy was only effective when cheap food was available to import. The imported food routes were finely balanced, relying on the 'just in time' basis, meaning s/mkts didn't have to hold large stocks, of anything, stocks = expensive, everything sold in a s/mkt, is monitored, automatically recorded, and that stock, is replaced over night, fantastic, you really can't help but admire it, but a shitty little virus finished it.</p><p></p><p>So, not only s/mkts, but most businesses, will have to start building stock up again, a double whammy, not only is food price rising, they have to pay, to build those stocks back up. There can be little doubt that food supplies, across the globe, while not 'short', are not plentiful, that is shown by prices, we are paid, here in the UK.</p><p></p><p>The next problem, is how do you change a policy, that has worked, from guvs point of view, not farmers, for 50 yrs, cheap food.. I doubt many UK politicians, have the slightest idea why food inflation is occurring, why should they ? Food has been to cheap for decades, they know nothing else. But now, that policy has imploded, big time, and at a time when energy prices have exploded, a potential European war, and climate change. Headless chicken, springs to mind ! But for any meaningful policy, to emerge, on food security, politicians have to be convinced, that this isn't just a temporary 'blib'.</p><p>One has to have some sympathy for Boris, he most certainly didn't expect the nightmares that have occurred, and still occurring, when he entered no. 10.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 8088515, member: 86168"] they only have to say, 'reigning in prices', and everyone will believe it. but you can guarantee their profit margin doesn't lose out. successive government's, have followed a cheap food policy, with very little concern about farming in the UK, unless a 'weather', or similar event, then we are heroes. But that policy was only effective when cheap food was available to import. The imported food routes were finely balanced, relying on the 'just in time' basis, meaning s/mkts didn't have to hold large stocks, of anything, stocks = expensive, everything sold in a s/mkt, is monitored, automatically recorded, and that stock, is replaced over night, fantastic, you really can't help but admire it, but a shitty little virus finished it. So, not only s/mkts, but most businesses, will have to start building stock up again, a double whammy, not only is food price rising, they have to pay, to build those stocks back up. There can be little doubt that food supplies, across the globe, while not 'short', are not plentiful, that is shown by prices, we are paid, here in the UK. The next problem, is how do you change a policy, that has worked, from guvs point of view, not farmers, for 50 yrs, cheap food.. I doubt many UK politicians, have the slightest idea why food inflation is occurring, why should they ? Food has been to cheap for decades, they know nothing else. But now, that policy has imploded, big time, and at a time when energy prices have exploded, a potential European war, and climate change. Headless chicken, springs to mind ! But for any meaningful policy, to emerge, on food security, politicians have to be convinced, that this isn't just a temporary 'blib'. One has to have some sympathy for Boris, he most certainly didn't expect the nightmares that have occurred, and still occurring, when he entered no. 10. [/QUOTE]
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