Coppied from elsewhere.
food inflation, is going to be a horrible shock, to many, including guvs, there hasn't really been a food shortage, since ww2, in fact quite the opposite, butter mountains, wine lakes etc, virtually all politicians, know nothing other than cheap, and plentiful food.
Do l worry about it, NO they need food, they cant do without it, and with how costs are rising, we can no longer produce the cheap food, they have believed, would never end, OH, sorry, l have news for them, it has suddenly ended. If they want to survive, they now will have to pay, a realistic price.
Everybody is complaining fert is to dear, why ? We, as farmers, have been shafted for years, fert is essential to produce good yields, it's also a global price, if farmers, around the world, stop, or reduce use, what will happen, production will go down, less production, means higher prices, and perhaps more importantly, a degree of respect for farmers.
So, the higher the cost of fert, the less food produced, which means shortages, and those mean higher prices, and, if it gets to £1000/ton, l will sell the load, we bought at £620, and make a profit !
We need to realise, that it is not our duty, to supply cheap food, to the public, they do not appreciate it, quite the opposite, they think, intensive modern farming, is destroying the world, as l said, realism is going to be a massive shock, to many