Fischer Boel warns on widening gap between retail and farmgate prices

THERE is a potential problem if prices paid to farmers are low while food prices in the shops are high, European Farm Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has warned.

Writing in her internet blog, she said consumers have probably felt from time to time that they’ve been watching a kind of magic trick in relation to food prices.

“They get the car and the kids back from the weekly food shopping, and turn on the TV to see images of demonstrating farmers.