Farmers Weekly Podcast Ep 104: Egg prices and the Neil Parish affair
© Tim Scrivener In this episode, as bird flu restrictions are finally lifted after six months, we examine the prospects for egg prices. Are producers getting a fair deal?
With British Beef Week’s 12th annual celebration under its belt, we look at the future for UK suckler cow producers.
We talk to NFU president Minette Batters as the union launches its agri-food export strategy – and we have all the latest market prices.
See also: Egg producers ‘on the brink’ as 30% cost rise wipes out profits
With a week left to have your say on the future of the AHDB, we find out what happens after the Shape The Future vote ends at midday on 9 May.
And we catch up with former NFU deputy president Stuart Roberts, who is helping to draft the Liberal Democrats manifesto for farming.
We also reflect on the career of Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiston, who has resigned after watching pornography while in Parliament.
Mr Parish was chairman of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee, which scrutinises the government’s food and farming policies.
This episode of the Farmers Weekly Podcast is co-hosted by Johann Tasker and Surrey farmer Hugh Broom.
To contact us, email podcast@fwi.co.uk.
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