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yellowbelly

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Livestock Farmer
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N.Lincs
Saw on the news today that there’s a shortage of sunflower oil and the rest of the veg oils are in short supply too .
Been talking to a lass who's very high up in the supply chain to all the big supermarkets and she says it's going to be a big problem.

She's struggling to get top management to realise there's going to be a problem - "Oh, we'll switch to rape oil," they've been telling her. As she's married to a farmer she knows all about why there's less rape about but they don't seem to understand.

She also was telling me how she's trying to get them to source more home grown produce but they're still putting price over food security.
The example she quoted that she'd been dealing with this week was onions. One firm uses Polish grown as it saves the £1M over UK onions.
They are still not prepared to switch even a small percentage over to UK grown to be sure of supply.

She reckons these big firms are just burying their heads in the sand and that sooner or later the sh!t will hit the fan.
 

Hilly

Member
Been talking to a lass who's very high up in the supply chain to all the big supermarkets and she says it's going to be a big problem.

She's struggling to get top management to realise there's going to be a problem - "Oh, we'll switch to rape oil," they've been telling her. As she's married to a farmer she knows all about why there's less rape about but they don't seem to understand.

She also was telling me how she's trying to get them to source more home grown produce but they're still putting price over food security.
The example she quoted that she'd been dealing with this week was onions. One firm uses Polish grown as it saves the £1M over UK onions.
They are still not prepared to switch even a small percentage over to UK grown to be sure of supply.

She reckons these big firms are just burying their heads in the sand and that sooner or later the sh!t will hit the fan.
Sooner the better !
 

Exfarmer

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Location
Bury St Edmunds
Been talking to a lass who's very high up in the supply chain to all the big supermarkets and she says it's going to be a big problem.

She's struggling to get top management to realise there's going to be a problem - "Oh, we'll switch to rape oil," they've been telling her. As she's married to a farmer she knows all about why there's less rape about but they don't seem to understand.

She also was telling me how she's trying to get them to source more home grown produce but they're still putting price over food security.
The example she quoted that she'd been dealing with this week was onions. One firm uses Polish grown as it saves the £1M over UK onions.
They are still not prepared to switch even a small percentage over to UK grown to be sure of supply.

She reckons these big firms are just burying their heads in the sand and that sooner or later the sh!t will hit the fan.
The supermaket buyers are changed round very regularly so they do not foem relationships with the producers. It also means they will be long gone before any sh*t hits the fan
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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