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Understanding the farmer protests 

Sustainable Food Trust

This is because the subsidies have been unconditional and the market has been brutal; they have used, as the NFU likes to say, ‘all the tools in the toolbox’, i.e., nitrogen fertiliser and pesticides, to continuously increase their food production in order to stay in business. He asked me, “What is your take on the protests?”

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