Get Fair about Farming is a campaign began, afte learning that 75% of fruit and veg farmers are scared they may fold within a year, citing supermarkets as the main cause.
The founder has written an open letter to the big six supermarkets, asking supermarkets to pay on time (not up to 12 weeks, which is illegal in the rest of Europe), not ‘wiggle out of contracts’, and pay what is agreed (one farmer grew 60 tonnes of salad potatoes, then was told they were no longer needed, leaving him ‘financially screwed’).
The price of supermarket apples has gone up 17% (yet the cost of growing them is far more, yet farmers see little extra payment). This also means more will be imported, bad for our endangered orchards, bad for farmers and bad for the planet.
