They all in it together with the goverments and the wef etc. They printed more and more fiat, while at the same time companies made packs smaller or paid less for the products in a cartel price set by some regulator or body, like for example with milk and the farmers. If any one is intrested look at this from the wef on
Who is actually running the polices the goveremnts are outlining and putting in place all to meet the gloabist agenda and save the planet via the green agenda, that’s what they say but the reality is very different. when you lok at the whole picture and the control they want over everything.
Speaking as a farmer from a 4th generation family of farmers, you are, for want of a better term, talking out of your backside.
Let’s put some simple reality into it.
Firstly, with regard to the document you link to – it may have escaped your notice, but the UK is no longer part of the EU. Thus, much of that document and such as the Common Agricultural Policy etc no longer applies in the UK.
You also seem to be looking for conspiracy theories with regards to your alleged ‘cartel’ between farmers and the government over the price of milk. Well, let me set the record correctly – There is no cartel.
What you do have is a system by which milk is subsidised via the Rural Payments Agency, particularly for farmers with smaller or more specialised dairy herds or with higher fat content of the milk as it costs more to produce. This actually keeps the retail price of milk down.
Without this small subsidy, many smaller farmers with dairy herds of less than roughly 150 beasts would either have to raise the ‘farm gate’ price of their milk to a level that no one would pay or go out of business. They cannot keep on selling things at a loss or with next to no margin!
If they go out of business you would be even more reliant on imported milk and with the value of the UK£ tumbling, it would be even more expensive. Plus looking at, for example the energy industry – do you see the folly of reliance on overseas supply?
Yes, the prices of milk and milk-based produce, in fact all UK farming produce, including arable and horticulture crops will rise. This is down to many factors:
The rising price of fuel.
The rising cost of feed.
The rising cost of fertiliser.
(Referred to as the 3 ‘f’s by farmers!).
As all three rely on imports (with Ukraine being a major supplier of fertiliser). Prices have risen dramatically. For example, Nitro-rich fertiliser has increased from circa £40 per tonne to over £200 per tonne).
As for feed, with the poor UK feed harvest in the summer this year (due to climate/weather), we will be more reliant than ever on imported feed for beasts over the coming winter. However, this must be ordered and paid for now – before the coming winter. Factor the falling £UK into this.
Then add in the rising amount we have to pay staff – our own family farming business has increased the staff salaries by 8.5% and they will rise further (else we will have no stockmen, farm hands etc etc).
One other factor that has risen unbelievably is the cost of farm veterinary medicines and Vet’s fees. Our own cattle TB testing cost has increased 3-fold this year.
For tenant farmers the situation is even worse, with rent rising exponentially.
So, farming costs are rising rapidly and by a huge amount. That is why farm gate prices have risen and will have to rise further – nothing to do with cartels or such conspiracy theories. If farm gate prices don’t increase, more farmers will go out of business and the UK will be even more reliant on ever more expensive imports.
Perhaps rather than promoting conspiracy theories, you need to get out and speak to a few farmers!