Wiltshire farmer: beef, sheep and arable. Wedding and Corporate events venue. Co founder, Ladies in Beef and GBBW. NFU President. All views my own.
Oct 8, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
It is a monumental day in the Brexit process and one that I bitterly disagree with. There is NO excuse for Govt not to apply a reciprocal tariff for grains. 99.8% of households eat bread made with 85% British wheat. And we have a huge harvest surplus of grain.
And then there's eggs. We consume 13 billion eggs a year. 90% produced here. 56% Retail, 23% Food Service 21% liquid and dried egg. And now 0% tariff on all imports. We'll be importing eggs that would be illegal for our farmers to produce here.
