they probably had a once in 30 year harvest. don t forget the cost of inputs. fertiliser, effectively, they would have the previous year been paying £200 a ton and paying 1,000 pounds per ton for nitrogen fertiliser. so so they would have been paying huge input costs. then, you have your poultry farmers, livestock and dairy farmers who have to pay a much higher price for that feed because the global commodity prices, as you say, has skyrocketed, all driven by russia invading ukraine. yeah. when it comes to the biggest obstacles to farmers today you ve talked about the shocks of covid, of the ukraine war, the various different disruptions and supply chain problems isn t the truth that the biggest problem of all with the vote to leave the european union, and we reckon that roughly half of farmers actually did vote for brexit. so, in a sense, farmers looking at their problems today, many of them
the previous year, been paying effectively £200 a ton and they were paying £1,000 a ton for nitrogen fertiliser, so they were facing huge input costs. but then, of course, you ve got your poultry farmers, you ve got your livestock, your dairy farmers who ve to pay a much higher price for that feed because the global commodity price, as you say, skyrocketed, all driven by russia invading ukraine. yeah. when it comes to the biggest obstacles to farmers today you ve talked about the shocks of covid, of the ukraine war, the various different disruptions and supply chain problems, isn t the truth that the biggest problem of all with the vote to leave the european union and we reckon that roughly half of farmers actually did vote for brexit so, in a sense, farmers looking at their problems today, many of them only have themselves to blame? brexit i don t think farmers
farmers even now. you have got a story of two halves. farmers even now. you have got a story of two halves. for- a story of two halves. for arable farmers yes they probably had a once in 30 year harvest, don t get the cost of inputs, fertiliser they would have the previous year been paying £200 a pun in paying thousand pounds per ton for nitrogen fertiliser. then you have your poultry farmers, livestock and dairy farmers who have to pay a much higher price for that feed because the global commodity prices has skyrocketed all driven by russia invading ukraine. when it comes to russia invading ukraine. when it comes to the russia invading ukraine. when it comes to the biggest - it comes to the biggest obstacles, to farmers today, have talked about the shocks of covid 19, the ukraine war, the various different disruptions and supply chain problems. isn t the truth, that the biggest problem of all the vote to leave the european union, and we reckon that roughly half of farmers actua
of inputs, fertiliser they would have the previous year been paying £200 a ton and paying a thousand pounds per ton for nitrogen fertiliser. then you have your poultry farmers, livestock and dairy farmers who have to pay a much higher price for that feed because the global commodity prices has skyrocketed, all driven by russia invading ukraine. when it comes to the biggest obstacles to farmers today, you ve talked about the shocks of covid, of the ukraine war, the various different disruptions and supply chain problems. isn t the truth, that the biggest problem of all, with the vote to leave the european union, and we reckon that roughly half of farmers actually did vote for brexit, so in a sense, farmers looking at their problems today, many of them only have
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