Our UK pig sector is in a worse position now than ever, this video is from FOUR years ago @DefraGovUK calling out the supply chain. Trying to put things in place but it’s all failed because of corporatism, mergers, selling off our high animal welfare standards to imports

✅ Good 🤩 NEWS! This is exactly what pragmatic Brexit repair looks like: both sides negotiating a workable route out of Brexit’s barriers. The EU has accepted transition periods so farmers and food businesses can adapt without facing £500–£810 million in sudden annual costs. Britain can temporarily continue gene-edited crop development, while wider alignment should remove checks, reopen markets and make food trade cheaper and safer. This news also punctures the claim that Brussels never compromises. Once Britain approaches Europe seriously, solutions become possible. The November summit is shaping up as the first substantial removal of Brexit damage: easier food trade, linked carbon markets and restored opportunities for young people. Not everything can be repaired immediately, but the direction is positive and every barrier removed delivers a tangible benefit.

Why Ethanol Could Hit Drivers and Farmers Hard Most people don’t realise it, but the push to put more ethanol in our petrol could end up whacking both drivers and farmers in the pocket. Ethanol sounds green and harmless — it’s made from crops like wheat and corn — but increasing the amount we blend into fuel has big consequences. Right now, the UK uses a mix called E10, which is up to 10% ethanol. But if ministers quietly push that higher, even by just 1%, it could mean an extra 28 million tonnes of wheat needed globally. That’s a huge amount — enough to move world food markets on its own. When demand jumps like that, wheat prices rise. And when wheat prices rise, the cost of making ethanol rises too. That means petrol prices go up, and drivers get hit again at the pumps. For farmers, it’s a double‑edged sword. Higher wheat prices sound good, but they also face higher fuel, fertiliser, and transport costs. So while some might get a better price for their crop, they could lose it again through rising bills. And if global wheat markets tighten, livestock farmers get hammered because animal feed becomes more expensive. The big problem is this: ethanol ties fuel prices to food prices. If there’s a drought, a bad harvest, or a war affecting grain exports, petrol prices can jump overnight. Drivers end up paying more every time they fill up, and farmers face more uncertainty when planning their crops and costs. FairFuelUK believes the Government must stop pretending this is a simple “green fix”. Increasing ethanol blending without a proper impact assessment risks fuel inflation, food inflation, and more volatility for everyone who depends on affordable fuel — which is basically the entire country. If ministers push ahead unthinkingly, drivers and farmers will be the ones paying for it.

Britain needs a new generation of farmers, and if anyone wrote the job advert honestly, nobody would apply. Vacancy: farmer, Great Britain Hours: all of them. Christmas morning is when the cow picks. Place of work: outdoors, in whatever it is doing. Pay: set by your buyer, after you have delivered. Pay in a bad year: you pay them. Holiday: see Hours. Lunch: in the cab, moving. Sick leave: the animals will let you know when. Line manager: the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, currently the tenth in ten years. Do not learn the name. Probation period: your whole life, overseen by a parent who has not retired and will not. Training: provided by that parent over about 30 years, unpaid, mostly by shouting across a yard. Equipment: supplied by you, on finance. The finance outlives the equipment. Company vehicle: a pickup with a dog-hair interior and a mind of its own. Premises: worth millions on paper. Do not sell anything from them without planning permission. Colleagues: one dog, the only one who fully understands the brief. Performance review: conducted by people who have never done the job, on television and at dinner parties you were not invited to. Pension: the land. Please note the land is also your successor's job, your bank's security and, above £2.5m, partly the Treasury's. Succession: available, provided you outlive the paperwork by seven years. Climate duties: you will be blamed for the weather and billed for it. Equal opportunities: women welcome, having done half of this job for a thousand years without anyone writing it down. Essential skills: welding, veterinary work, accountancy, weather forecasting, mechanics, and saying "not bad" when asked how things are. Desirable: a television contract. To apply: be born into it.

Living on a family farm, this one really does hit close to home. 6000 farm businesses have closed their gates since the October 24 Budget and many more are hanging in the balance. These farms aren’t just numbers on a balance sheet. They are people, families, years of hard graft and generations who have cared for the same patch of land and passed it on. British farming has been knocked about enough. We should be helping the next generation to carry on farming, not making it harder for them. Our farms grow our food and look after our countryside. They are worth fighting for. Scrap the Family farm tax @andyburnham

This Back British Farming Day, we're supporting the people who feed our nation.🌾 Following drought, we announced £65m to help farmers secure the infrastructure they need for the future. Food security is national security. We're backing British farming, now and for the future.

‘It needs to be in the same category as defence.’ Farmer Clive Bailey reacts to MPs wearing the wheatsheaf pin badge at PMQs to mark Back British Farming Day, as he calls on the Government to support farmers and food security. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604

I'll just leave this here... @dantomlinsonmp @andyburnham @TWBFarms @agricontract @wheat_daddy

"The government has reallocated existing money from the farming budget to help farmers combat drought," says CLA President Gavin Lane. "This is a welcome and pragmatic move, but little more than a temporary fix." 🚜 "The announcement is a step forward, but it will not change the reality that farming remains exceptionally difficult in this business environment, and in a country that does not have a plan climate change adaption. "This needs to become a sustained programme, with planning and abstraction lined up in support." Learn more about why the CLA has been fighting to ease restrictions on building farm reservoirs: cla.org.uk/news/farm-reservo…