Celebrities join fight for fairer farmgate prices

A raft of famous faces as well as more than 5,000 people write to their MPs in support of Riverford's #GetFairAboutFarming

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Head of News and Business
clock • 2 min read
Riverford founder Guy Singh-Watson is urging supermarkets to offer a fair deal for farmers
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Riverford founder Guy Singh-Watson is urging supermarkets to offer a fair deal for farmers

MORE than 5,000 people across the UK have now written to their MPs calling for urgent government action to protect farmers from unfair supermarket buying practices. The initiative, #GetFairAboutFarming,...

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