Higher food prices...

czechmate

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Mixed Farmer
Seriously? if they can bring endless goods from all the way China, NZ & Oz I'm sure a few oranges won't scorch the planet!

I saw what will was getting at, I don’t think you have. You were talking about moving to buying British produce, hence he brought up oranges. I said maybe you will be able to grow oranges In the uk with a bit more climate change?
Hope that makes sense 🥴
 

BrianV

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Dartmoor
I saw what will was getting at, I don’t think you have. You were talking about moving to buying British produce, hence he brought up oranges. I said maybe you will be able to grow oranges In the uk with a bit more climate change?
Hope that makes sense 🥴
It does but the thought of the EU losing a market share to another country can't help but raise a smile!
 

BrianV

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Dartmoor
How is the EU responsible for the UK NOT installing their world beating system ( after the EU offered to sell them the system already in use)?
Maybe the UK have finally woken up & are starting to play the EU game by it's rules ie, to make life as difficult as possible for others when it's to your advantage.
Hopefully we will see large lorry parks springing up on your side of the channel to match ours, if we can now just persuade migrants to hop aboard lorries returning to you life will have gone full circle!
 

le bon paysan

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Limousin, France
Maybe the UK have finally woken up & are starting to play the EU game by it's rules ie, to make life as difficult as possible for others when it's to your advantage.
Hopefully we will see large lorry parks springing up on your side of the channel to match ours, if we can now just persuade migrants to hop aboard lorries returning to you life will have gone full circle!
How is it to your advantage to have your food sat on a dock?
When the UK left , the EU started building lorry parks and customs facilities. You still haven't hired the 55000 customs officers Gove said you were going to.
Don't blame the EU for that.
 

le bon paysan

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Limousin, France
Well this will help. NOT!
One of the new documentation systems post #Brexit, is called PEACH, which covers horticultural produce. It only works with ‘Internet Explorer’. Which was discontinued March last year … and only installed by 1% of users😂😂😂
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BrianV

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Dartmoor
How is it to your advantage to have your food sat on a dock?
When the UK left , the EU started building lorry parks and customs facilities. You still haven't hired the 55000 customs officers Gove said you were going to.
Don't blame the EU for that.
I would guess that if UK shops starting losing goods at the docks that someone will expect paying for they may well think of looking closer to home for supplies even if it means reducing the selection on offer don't you think?
 

le bon paysan

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Limousin, France
I would guess that if UK shops starting losing goods at the docks that someone will expect paying for they may well think of looking closer to home for supplies even if it means reducing the selection on offer don't you think?
Will work fine for cabbages and sprouts, orange's and lemons I'm not so sure. Selection is bound to suffer.
We were talking to a wine negociant at Christmas, he reckons lead times on South American, Australian and Californian wines are now 6 months into the uk, the shippers will not send to UK direct but are putting them through Spain and Germany.
Cheers.
 

BrianV

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Dartmoor
Will work fine for cabbages and sprouts, orange's and lemons I'm not so sure. Selection is bound to suffer.
We were talking to a wine negociant at Christmas, he reckons lead times on South American, Australian and Californian wines are now 6 months into the uk, the shippers will not send to UK direct but are putting them through Spain and Germany.
Cheers.
Seems like we will be living on cold turkey, sprouts & beer for a while, could be worse.
 

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