Food service disruption and the supply chain

The scale of the disruption we have seen to the food service sector due to the coronavirus restrictions in the past week is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before, and I know farmers up and down the country who supply the likes of McDonalds and Nando’s will feel concerned about what this might mean, says Head of food and farming Philip Hambling. 

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Food service disruption and the supply chain

All the team at the NFU are doing all we can to keep supply chains running. It is absolutely imperative that processors and suppliers to food services are sustained and mobilised around delivering food...

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