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<h1><b>UK ‘No Farmers No Food’ campaign launches over ‘green’ taxes and
supermarket price fixing, squeezed margins force farmers out as private
equity moves
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<h3><b>No Farmers, No Food campaign group wins support as UK producers
mull protest
action</b></h3>
<a href="https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/sourcing/no-farmers-no-food-campaign-group-wins-support-as-europe-protests/688053.article">
By Kevin White 8 February 2024</a><br><br>
<img src="cid:7.0.1.0.1.20240210014159.04877c90@cultureshop.org.uk.0" width=801 height=433 alt="Emacs!">
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UK farmers have been debating following their European colleagues’
protest action, which led to big disruption in France and across the
continent last week<br><br>
New campaign group No Farmers, No Food is already attracting significant
support, as farmers across the UK mull following their European
colleagues with protest action.<br><br>
<a href="https://twitter.com/NoFarmsNoFoods?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Tweets
by NoFarmsNoFoods</a><br><br>
The group was established on Twitter/X a fortnight ago as a wave of
protests spread across the continent over onerous environmental
regulations, rising costs, competition from imports and a lack of support
from supermarkets.<br><br>
Farmers across the UK now appear to be eyeing similar action. The new
campaign has already attracted more than 50,000 followers on the social
media platform and more than 300,000 on Facebook, with countless more
farmers and food industry bodies engaging with the movement behind the
scenes, said founder James Melville.<br><br>
<h3><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBwylnw-ibk">Guy
Singh-Watson: Supermarkets act now: Get Fair About Farming</a></b></h3>No
Farmers, No Food is pitching itself as a non-political, non-militant
campaign group that seeks to “support farmers and build public opinion
and support” around the type of concerns expressed by continental
farmers, said Melville – who is the son of a farmer, a media commentator
and communications specialist.<br><br>
“What we’re trying to do is create a set of campaigns and messages the
public can understand, based on what is sometimes a very, very,
complicated set of issues that are differing from farm to farm,” he
added, pointing to government bureaucracy and the treatment of farmers by
supermarkets as key areas that needed to be addressed.<br><br>
But he stressed organising protests “was not our job as a very new
organisation”.<br><br>
“It’s up to individual communities and farmers to decide what they want
to do,” he added.<br><br>
<h3><b><a href="http://www.getfairaboutfarming.co.uk">Guy
Singh-Watson:</a> Get Fair About Farming:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmYVLzhyN_U">Silence of the
supermarkets</a></b></h3>The formation of the group comes amid growing
calls for organised farmer protests in the UK. Farmers in Wales are
understood to be particularly open to protest action.<br><br>
More than 1,000 farmers met at Welshpool livestock market last week to
discuss the impact of proposed new Welsh government sustainable farming
rules, which NFU Cymru warned could devastate the nation’s farming
sector.<br><br>
Plans by the Labour administration could lead to a 10.8% cut in livestock
numbers and an 11% cut in labour on Welsh farms, equivalent to losing
5,500 jobs – costing the sector almost £200m. However, the Welsh
government stresses the plans are subject to a consultation and could
still change.<br><br>
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<dd>Cheshire dairy farmer, Kelly Seaton
<a href="https://twitter.com/KellyFarmWife?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">
@KellyFarmWife</a> gives an impassioned commentary over the huge
pressures on farmers and is concerned about whether the family farm will
be continued by her children. It’s time for the government to actively
support our farmers.
<a href="https://t.co/pgHCq4urBh">pic.twitter.com/pgHCq4urBh</a><br><br>
<dd> No Farmers, No Food (@NoFarmsNoFoods)
<a href="https://twitter.com/NoFarmsNoFoods/status/1754940712334835748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">
February 6, 2024</a><br><br>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/NoFarmsNoFoods/status/1754940712334835748">
Kelly Seaton: huge financial pressure being piled onto
farmers</a></b></h3>Farmers at the event expressed dismay at the plans,
said north Wales-based livestock farmer Gareth Wyn Jones, who is also
among the supporters of No Farmers, No Food. Further meetings were
expected in Wales this week.<br><br>
“There are definitely whispers around protest action and an appetite for
it. But we’re not quite there yet,” Jones told The Grocer.<br><br>
“This is a movement of frustration, with many farmers feeling like enough
is enough – the situation many are finding themselves in is
unsustainable.”<br><br>
Some farmers were “raring to go” on protests, he said.<br><br>
However, Jones – who has also highlighted the plight of farmers on his
YouTube channel – stressed the “need to keep the public on board” and for
any potential action to be co-ordinated, respectful and
peaceful.<br><br>
“There is no point in fragmented protest,” he added. “But if we do see
protests it demonstrates we are at rock bottom.”<br><br>
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<dd>With Tata steel having just confirmed the closure of the two blast
furnaces at Port Talbot, here are a few important datapoints.<br>
<dd>First, UK steelmaking has collapsed faster, over the past half
century, than ANY other country in the world save for Venezuela.<br>
<dd>Pretty shocking
<a href="https://t.co/bzxPsjWsnD">pic.twitter.com/bzxPsjWsnD</a><br><br>
<dd> Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky)
<a href="https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/1748774254718472473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">
January 20, 2024</a><br><br>
</dl><a href="https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/1748774254718472473">
With Tata steel having just confirmed the closure of the two blast
furnaces at Port Talbot, here are a few important data points.</a><br>
First, UK steel-making has collapsed faster, over the past half century,
than ANY other country in the world save for Venezuela.<br>
Pretty shocking <br><br>
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