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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Joanna Partridge

‘Some aren’t going to make it’: how pressure on farmers threatens UK food security

Arable farmer Jamie Burrows leans against a green tractor behind tall wheat stalks
Jamie Burrows, the chair of the crops board at the National Farmers’ Union, says there are multiple challenges facing him and other food producers. Photograph: National Farmers' Union

“There are so many decent, capable, productive, efficient arable farmers out there, asking how they are supposed to finance the crop they are meant to be putting in the ground,” Jamie Burrows says.

Sitting in his tractor at his arable farm in Norfolk, Burrows is listing the multiple challenges facing him and other food producers.

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