Farming crisis analysed by newspaper

15 October 1998

Farming crisis analysed by newspaper

By FWi staff

The Daily Telegraph today continues its analysis of the crisis which has engulfed UK farmers.

The only farmers not in recession are organic farmers who are being actively courted by the supermarkets, writes environment editor Charles Glover.

Mr Glover also analyses todays report by the Council for the Protection of Rural England which claims family farms are being driven out of business by supermarkets.

Meanwhile, Philip Johnston, home affairs editor, reports on the gap between the price farmers are paid for livestock and the cost of meat on supermarket shelves.

• 25,000 farmers set to quit as crisis deepens- FWi 14 October 1998
• Get a grip on business, banks urge farmers, FWi, 3 September, 1998
• Bank warning on losses, FWi, 23 June, 1998
• Scottish farmers owe banks a £billion, FWi, 9 June, 1998
• Farm borrowings on the increase, FWi, 30 April, 1998
• Rumours abound that banks plan to foreclose on farms, FWi, 17 February, 1998
• Farm incomes to get worse before better, FWi, 11 February, 1998