More than 70 businesses and producers from the food and farming industry attend the Farm to Fork summit held at Downing Street, including the Rodda’s dairy company, Fischer Farms, Tesco, Aldi and McCain. It comes against a backdrop of challenges for farmers, from an unprecedented wet winter which hit harvests, to trading delays and costs, and ongoing high input costs. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:03 I'm done.
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00:46 To our British farmers, I do want to say this.
00:49 We are with you.
00:50 I know we've had literally the record wettest 18 months
00:54 that we've ever experienced.
00:55 As the MP of a rural constituency in North Yorkshire,
00:58 I know firsthand how tough things have been.
01:01 I've spoken to many farmers across the country.
01:04 I've seen the waterlogged fields as I've traveled around,
01:07 crops been damaged or not planted at all,
01:09 the lambs that have been lost.
01:11 And that extreme rainfall comes after all the shocks,
01:15 global shocks to fertilizer and fuel,
01:17 which you had to grapple with in the past couple of years.
01:20 And I think it's probably fair to say,
01:21 I think no other business sector that I can think of
01:24 has had to deal with what you've had to deal with
01:26 over the past couple of years.
01:28 And at the same time, no one has worked harder than you all
01:31 have, flat out, to keep getting food on the nation's plate.
01:35 So can I just also say a massive thank you to farmers
01:39 right across the UK.
01:40 You have our gratitude.
01:41 [APPLAUSE]