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Franek Smith

May 29, 2026

13:51
So, um, what, what's your take on the situation, Franek?
13:54
Um, it's a very, very important subject, and, um, not to over-dramatize the situation, but, um, I, I don't mind you guys knowing this.
14:03
I'm 37 years old, and I would hate to look back in 25 years, hopefully, if I make it, when I retire, at that we had the opportunity to control this pest, and my concern is that as an industry, we don't.
14:16
And, um, nobody in the UK or in Europe wants to eat insects inside their peas.
14:23
It's, it's, uh, it, it would end the, our supply potentially if we take the worst case scenario here, which as I've mentioned, I don't want to over-dramatize.
14:32
So we have a golden opportunity to get on top of this pest by work that we can do as an industry and farmers as well, and the PGRO are providing us with some wonderful tools to monitor and report this pest if we find it.
14:47
And actually, I'm not sure if you know this, Ben, but at the original case, uh, of pea bruchid was actually found by Wherry's by, um, Leia in our lab.

7 MINS LATER

21:58
From a, from a, again, from a trader's point of view, what are the, the strengths of UK-grown peas and beans if we perhaps compare it to, to other products from around the world? What is it that, that people value about our product?

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