Brian RichardsonGuest
Stephen BuchanGuest
Ally Hunter BlairHost
Sophie GregoryHost
So we're going to kick off with confident levels in the industry as a whole and across sector.

I think AHDB have come out with farm confidence being at the lowest since 2010.

I think generally during the spring, we certainly, I felt we saw a bit more interest come forward.

I think we got through the sort of IHT upheaval in terms of people getting their heads around that.

And so there were some farmers, I think, who decided, right, now's the time to reorganize things and perhaps retire and led on to the next generation.

Since then, particularly the weather, the challenge of the weather, inflation again coming back in with fuel and fertilizer and allied with that, I think no real idea when that might change.

We keep thinking that things might get back to normal soon and then something changes.

So I think as we've gone into the summer and certainly the weather's exacerbated that, the challenge of the weather and higher prices just probably dampen that confidence a little bit.

Stephen will talk about Scotland and we've been around, you know, had the pleasure of going around all the shows.

uh they've had a reasonable harvest yeah and it's been dry and relatively low cost and all the rest so it is a very mixed picture and i think the other thing we're seeing now is probably some of that support mechanism in terms of bps which now completely disappeared 50 of farmers in england at least who haven't taken that up there isn't that buffer mechanism there to support that
I think that we were talking about this on the last part, that the regional variation within an island that's so small is incredible, actually.
I'm sure as you came down yesterday, you can almost see it cut off probably between Manchester and Birmingham somewhere.

So we're going to kick off with confident levels in the industry as a whole and across sector.

I think AHDB have come out with farm confidence being at the lowest since 2010.

I think generally during the spring, we certainly, I felt we saw a bit more interest come forward.

I think we got through the sort of IHT upheaval in terms of people getting their heads around that.

And so there were some farmers, I think, who decided, right, now's the time to reorganize things and perhaps retire and led on to the next generation.

Since then, particularly the weather, the challenge of the weather, inflation again coming back in with fuel and fertilizer and allied with that, I think no real idea when that might change.

We keep thinking that things might get back to normal soon and then something changes.

So I think as we've gone into the summer and certainly the weather's exacerbated that, the challenge of the weather and higher prices just probably dampen that confidence a little bit.

Stephen will talk about Scotland and we've been around, you know, had the pleasure of going around all the shows.

uh they've had a reasonable harvest yeah and it's been dry and relatively low cost and all the rest so it is a very mixed picture and i think the other thing we're seeing now is probably some of that support mechanism in terms of bps which now completely disappeared 50 of farmers in england at least who haven't taken that up there isn't that buffer mechanism there to support that
I think that we were talking about this on the last part, that the regional variation within an island that's so small is incredible, actually.
I'm sure as you came down yesterday, you can almost see it cut off probably between Manchester and Birmingham somewhere.
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