my guest today is minette batters. she farms right here, she s also president of the national farmers union. as a society, are we asking our farmers for the impossible? minette batters, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure to be on yourfarm. and the sun is shining and, in some ways, you would think the sun would be shining on farmers. food prices are spiralling higher. you would think that would be good news for farmers. is it? it s it s quite extraordinary. i don t think, in my lifetime, i ve ever faced into anything like the cost inflation that we re facing with our inputs now. so, we re seeing triple digit inflation on on fertiliser, we ve seen diesel costs up by 57%, feed costs up by nearly 60%. these are huge price pressures and, of course. you have chosen to alight upon the price pressures, i chose to start by talking about the prices you are receiving because we know that consumers are struggling to meet the prices of the basic foods
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