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Farming Today: 21/07/2022 No parliamentary scrutiny for the Australia trade deal, Dairy feed

21/07/2022 No parliamentary scrutiny for the Australia trade deal, Dairy feed

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 21/07/2022 No parliamentary scrutiny for the Australia trade deal, Dairy feed

No parliamentary scrutiny for Australia trade deal - what does that mean for future deals?

No parliamentary scrutiny for the Australia trade deal - what does that mean for future deals and UK farmers?

The Government has failed to give MPs the chance to debate the trade deal with Australia in the House of Commons. Australia is the first post-Brexit trade deal to be negotiated from scratch. Farmers have objected to its terms; they say it will let in too much beef and lamb produced at standards below those in the UK.  Parliamentary scrutiny was promised many times over the last few years.  We ask what happened.
As part of our week looking at livestock feed, today we hear from a dairy farmer.  The recent uncertainty has pushed up animal feed prices which in turn has trickled down to shoppers. 

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