- Location
- Devon
During Covid, the supermarkets were started on a path of 'pre-competitive collaboration'.
It worked well and they were keen to do more.
This resulted in the WWF basket;
We then have a cost of living crisis and the government want the supermarkets to subdue food prices.
The supermarkets point out that removing £3 billion/ year which they received via UK farmers low food costs would only increase their prices, as would the legal commitments to meet net-zero targets.
If we can use that £3 billion to maintain food production but also commit 10% of agricultural land to nature, we can all meet our targets.
So at least the Welsh had the honesty to do this in a direct manner.
In England, they dreamt up a plan whereby the NFU [or maybe the BRC] got Red Tractor to create the GFC. Because as Minette said, " Sustainability is a licence to trade".
Meant to start as voluntary and at 5% of your holding, it seems inevitable it will become a compulsory 10% shortly.
And this is why I believe Mark Spencer [ Farm minister ] was concerned about farmers "taking the Mickey".
{https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/busi...-hints-at-elm-cap-to-maintain-food-production}
He just doesn't like the fact things aren't turning out quite like they intended.
With farmers either going into SFI large scale or not at all, it doesn't help their previous stated intentions of tying SFI and GFC together.
The bottom line is, English farmers are being stitched up by a collaboration of the government and the cartel, aided and abetted by the NFU and RT. Supported by AHDB.
It worked well and they were keen to do more.
This resulted in the WWF basket;
WWF Basket
In November 2021 we launched the WWF Basket - a set of outcomes and measures to support the goal of halving the environmental impact of UK baskets by 2030.
www.wwf.org.uk
We then have a cost of living crisis and the government want the supermarkets to subdue food prices.
The supermarkets point out that removing £3 billion/ year which they received via UK farmers low food costs would only increase their prices, as would the legal commitments to meet net-zero targets.
If we can use that £3 billion to maintain food production but also commit 10% of agricultural land to nature, we can all meet our targets.
So at least the Welsh had the honesty to do this in a direct manner.
In England, they dreamt up a plan whereby the NFU [or maybe the BRC] got Red Tractor to create the GFC. Because as Minette said, " Sustainability is a licence to trade".
Meant to start as voluntary and at 5% of your holding, it seems inevitable it will become a compulsory 10% shortly.
And this is why I believe Mark Spencer [ Farm minister ] was concerned about farmers "taking the Mickey".
{https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/busi...-hints-at-elm-cap-to-maintain-food-production}
He just doesn't like the fact things aren't turning out quite like they intended.
With farmers either going into SFI large scale or not at all, it doesn't help their previous stated intentions of tying SFI and GFC together.
The bottom line is, English farmers are being stitched up by a collaboration of the government and the cartel, aided and abetted by the NFU and RT. Supported by AHDB.
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