What I don't get about these sky high grain prices, is surely someone down the chain is going to refuse to pay the increased costs? Even if it went right through to retail bread, at £10 a loaf not much would sell.
Just wait till fizzy juice comes under threat again, then the riots will start.
Go and visit an organic dairy farm and learn how they do it with slurry muck and legumesI can see a lot of dairy cows hanging on a hook
Not all about arable doncha know
I don’t. It’s water or milk in our houseI don't drink IRN BRU and neither should you.
I don’t. It’s water or milk in our house
Biggest problem is going to be the price of feed for intensive livestock/poultry units imo, most of them will not fatten/milk or breed without it. Corn price will offset fert ,fuel etc for the arable farmers. I expect big rises in the price of meat and milk or there will not be any
Wheat at £300 per tonne is 30p a kilo.What I don't get about these sky high grain prices, is surely someone down the chain is going to refuse to pay the increased costs? Even if it went right through to retail bread, at £10 a loaf not much would sell.
Wheat at £300 per tonne is 30p a kilo.
A loaf of bread uses approx 500g of flour. 15p for that wheat.