From the editor: 'If the country is to have guaranteed food security, then stability and certainty is needed within supply chains'

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

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From the editor: 'If the country is to have guaranteed food security, then stability and certainty is needed within supply chains'

With tension across all areas of farming policy at the moment and the Government lurching from one political misstep to another, the phrase ‘control the controllable' is at risk of being overused – but...

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