Session 2: Export to grow
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The focus so far has been very much towards near market dairy, livestock ,and fresh produce sectors. How do you see improvements in the global combinable crops UK market promoted better for exports???
We are nervously investing heavily in our new pasteurised liquid egg processing plant and will likely be exporting a vast majority of its output as customers in other countries value our farming methods and British credentials more so than our domestic market. Do you see this as the future for the output of British farming businesses in order to survive, leaving lower production standard imported foods to feed our own nation?
Where do you see the most growth for high value UK dairy products over the next decade and what more could government do to help UK dairy exporters increase their market access?
We are nervously investing heavily in our new pasteurised liquid egg processing plant and will likely be exporting a vast majority of its output as customers in other countries value our farming methods and British credentials more so than our domestic market. Do you see this as the future for the output of British farming businesses in order to survive, leaving lower production standard imported foods to feed our own nation?
We run a mixed farming operation where our principal products are lamb, spring barley and English Wine. To all those commodities export markets are crucial to the value of the product. Do you see a free trade deal with the USA being an opportunity or a threat to British farming?