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


Farmers hit by 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

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