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England needs new reservoirs or food supplies will be at risk, warns NFU chief

Farming leader Minette Batters says government needs to take action to tackle worsening water shortages

The Guardian - UK

Fruit and vegetable shortages could last up to a month

‘Significant volumes’ of tomatoes aren’t expected back on supermarket shelves until the end of March

Evening Standard

Eat turnips instead of tomatoes as shortages could last a MONTH, says Tory minister

Environment Secretary Therese Coffey has come under fire after retailers including Tesco and Asda were forced to put limits on how much fresh produce customers could buy

Daily Mirror

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Tributes paid to long serving Stewartry secretary of NFU Scotland

Mickey Coutts, who passed away in February 2023, was based in the Castle Douglas office for 36 years

Daily Record

UK should ‘cherish’ turnips, suggests Thérèse Coffey, as food shortages could last a month – as it happened

Thérèse Coffey, Defra secretary of state, has predicted that the UK’s fruit and vegetable shortages could last up to four weeks

The Guardian - UK

‘We have to pay more for food’: Britain’s biggest tomato farmer on the runaway costs of growing

Soaring costs from light and fertiliser to pickers and packaging led APS Group to leave one in 12 of its glasshouses empty last winter

The Guardian - UK

Food shortages – latest: Carrots, leeks and cabbages could run low in weeks as supermarkets ration

Growers also warn British-grown leek supplies could be exhausted by April

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Britain is the (empty) basket case of Europe as supermarkets ration fruit and veg

Ex-Sainbury’s boss among those blaming Brexit as industry warns shortages will last weeks

The Independent UK

Thérèse Coffey brings farmers’ union plenty of chaff and no wheat

Environment secretary leaves Birmingham with egg on face while Rish! endures Brexit psychodrama

The Guardian - UK

Supermarket rationing could last for weeks, retail experts warn

Production of tomatoes and cucumbers expected to drop to ‘lowest levels since records began,’ National Farming Union warns

The Independent UK

Thérèse Coffey rules out reintroduction of wolves and lynx

Environment secretary tells farmers ‘not to worry’, but angers wildlife campaigners who say ecosystems need lost species

The Guardian - UK

Why are UK supermarkets facing fresh food shortages?

Three big retailers are placing limits on shoppers on some produce lines. What is behind the rationing?

The Guardian - UK

Therese Coffey booed by farmers after refusing to accept food shortage failure

‘We can’t control the weather in Spain’, says enviornment secretary

The Independent UK

Asda and Morrisons fruit and veg rationing: All we know as other stores deny shortages

A combination of bad weather and transport problems in Africa and Europe has seen UK supermarket shelves left bare of tomatoes, as well as dwindling stocks of some other fresh produce

Daily Mirror

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Manchester Evening News

We went to supermarkets across Greater Manchester in the hunt for tomatoes... and it felt like the Crystal Maze

'I think there are going to be challenges on availability of some food items'

The Guardian - UK

Forbes doubles down and torpedoes SNP chances. Pass the idiot pills!

Leadership candidate manages to scare off supporters as insanity spreads to waters down south

The Guardian - UK

Rural communities ‘in my DNA’ and important to Labour, Starmer tells farmers

Leader targets traditionally Tory voters in ‘persuasive and coherent’ address at NFU conference about value of sector and its challenges

The Independent UK

Tory ministers failing to help farmers deal with Brexit fallout, says NFU

More support needed, says union – as Keir Starmer vows ‘better trading relationship’ with EU will help farmers

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The Guardian - UK

Nurses’ union to pause strike action while it holds ‘intensive talks’ with government on pay – as it happened

RCN suspends 48-hour strike in England planned for March with health secretary to meet union leaders

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s farmers battered by Brexit fallout and rising costs, says union

Farmers’ union president Minette Batters to say ‘volatility, uncertainty and instability are greatest risks to farm businesses’

The Guardian - UK

Taken for granted: rural vote up for grabs if Labour can make hay

Countryside feels let down by 13 years of Tory rule but other parties will not pick up votes by default

The Guardian - UK

Starmer to make EU trade and standards pledge as Tories ‘give up on farmers’

Exclusive: In address to NFU conference on Tuesday, Labour leader will make his pitch to the rural community

The Guardian - UK

UK risks ‘disastrous’ food scandal due to lax post-Brexit border controls – NFU chief

Minette Batters accuses ministers of ‘dereliction of duty’ in failing to ensure safety of agricultural imports

The Guardian - UK

Farmers’ union called UK environment targets ‘irrational’ and ‘unachievable’

NFU raised questions over water pollution, tree planting and rewilding targets, according to documents

The Guardian - UK

Post-Brexit £1,000 farming payments ‘too little, too late’, says NFU

Environmental cash incentives part of government scheme to replace EU common agricultural policy

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