From the editor: Ben Briggs - Will changing consumer habits create opportunities for farming?

This week’s inflation figures make for eye watering reading, surging as they are at 10.1 per cent and with food being one of the big drivers of that growth.

Ben Briggs
Ben Briggs is the group publisher and editor in chief of Agriconnect, overseeing the media business and titles such as Farmers Guardian, Dairy Farmer and Arable Farming.
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From the editor: Ben Briggs - Will changing consumer habits create opportunities for farming?

This weeks inflation figures make for eye watering reading, surging as they are at 10.1 per cent and with food being one of the big drivers of that growth. For farming itself it is a double-edged sword...

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