Credit crunch latest
Agriculture may be less vulnerable to the global financial crisis than many other industry sectors, but its impact is increasingly being felt across the farming industry – whether that’s through changes to consumer spending or difficulties securing credit.
Below is a list of some of the latest articles looking at how the so-called ‘credit crunch’ is affecting farmers and agribusinesses:
Arable costs drive farm lending to new high
Credit crunch sees farm shops and farmers’ markets at the sharp end
Farm shop produce cheaper than supermarket food
Arable costs drive farm lending to new high
Credit crunch hits farmers’ overdraft rates
David Richardson: Are farmers less important than bankers?
Farmer calls for Single Farm Payments to be speeded up
Benn tells supermarkets to pay suppliers more quickly
Credit crunch leads to fall in rate of food inflation
View from the boardroom: Farming can beat the credit crunch
Tesco weathers economic storm to post £1.45bn profit
Promar figures show cash crunch hitting dairy farms
Organic market not hit by credit crunch, Soil Association says