Further Food Price Increases - Winter 2025/6?

[Klenchblaize]

Particularly struck this morning (01/09) by the need for Farmers to deploy Winter fodder throughout late Summer due to the drought's impact on grass:

Surely this can only mean a further increase in food costs this Winter as Farmers seek to recover the addictional expenditure associated with what is certain to be inflated animal feed prices?

K

 

[shakey jake]

Particularly struck this morning (01/09) by the need for Farmers to deploy Winter fodder throughout late Summer due to the drought's impact on grass:
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Surely this can only mean a further increase in food costs this Winter as Farmers seek to recover the addictional expenditure associated with what is certain to be inflated animal feed prices?

K

For farmers sake i really hope so, wheat, pots and barely are too cheap.
Hopefully price increase will save the farms, or expect more solar and donkey paddocks

 

[FISH BOY]

The big retailers are forecasting 6% food inflation by Xmas thanks to the latest Labour budget raid on NIC and the increase to minimum wage.

 

[Malxwal]

Socialism, dragging everyone to the lowest common denominator. Unless, that is, you're in "the party". Seem familiar?

 

[lochty]

Cereal yields up here are down by at least 20% because of the weather so I'd reckon price rises are inevitable.

 

[Apthorpe]

No, no. Luckily that great statesman and paragon of integrity Keir Starmer negotiated us a deal which will provide the British consumer £9 billion leas cost for food and drink. We'll all be enjoying virtually free food by Christmas, not that we'll be worry9ng by then because we'll.all have so much more money in our pockets.

 

[shakey jake]

Cereal yields up here are down by at least 20% because of the weather so I'd reckon price rises are inevitable.

All now dependant on global market!
I think we coild learn from trumps tarifs

 

[Apthorpe]

All now dependant on global market!
I think we coild learn from trumps tarifs

WTF? How is adding extra tax onto food prices going to help?

 

[shakey jake]

WTF? How is adding extra tax onto food prices going to help?

Increasing the price of forgein import allowing our farmers to increase their price to ensure a decent wage.
Farmers price is dictated by global price not fair when their costs are dictated by uk price.
Food is too cheap in this country

 

[enfieldspares]

Bringing back the Corn Laws is what putting tariffs on foreign food imports is. And less we forget it was Thatcher who abolished the Milk Marketing Board.

Corn Laws - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[nun_hunter]

Increasing the price of forgein import allowing our farmers to increase their price to ensure a decent wage.
Farmers price is dictated by global price not fair when their costs are dictated by uk price.
Food is too cheap in this country

Which may be good for farmers but screws over everyone else.

Food is cheap compared to elsewhere but loads of other essentials are more expensive and wages arent great.

 

[VSS]

I think that you're going to have a straight choice:
Imported food or expensive food?

Trouble is, what people say they want, and what they actually buy, are not the same thing.

 

[Freeforester]

I’m sure Rachel from Complaints will give us all great cheer in her upcoming Autumn Statement….

 

[shakey jake]

Which may be good for farmers but screws over everyone else.

Food is cheap compared to elsewhere but loads of other essentials are more expensive and wages arent great.

People might need to tighten their belts

 

[old keeper]

Several local farms have already brought their cattle inside and are feeding hay, etc. Rain has finally come, but too late to change things.

 

[VSS]

I've just been buying store lambs for £66 / head that would have cost me £98 / head this time last year.
No-one's got any grass to finish them, and forage crops are sparse.

 

[JTO]

Several local farms have already brought their cattle inside and are feeding hay, etc. Rain has finally come, but too late to change things.

Feeding hay should always start in September or solids-not-fat in the milk will be down at the end of the Winter.

 

[VSS]

Feeding hay should always start in September or solids-not-fat will be reduced at the end of the Winter.

He didn't say they were dairy cows.

 

[JTO]

He didn't say they were dairy cows.

I think nutrition is universal, possibly.

 

[VSS]

I think nutrition is universal, possibly.

That is true.
But "solids-not-fat" isn’t something that would be measured in a suckler herd.