Farmers also need a benchmarking deal

WORLD trade talks represent a huge threat to farmers and other sectors within Europe, leaving us exposed to huge income drops for our produce and labour.

With cheap imports from countries outside the EU undermining our prices, and the removal of export subsidies, the reduction in import tariffs will do untold damage to our industry as we farmers will find ourselves exposed like no other sector.

Why? The answer lies with the failure of our unions, the farming organisations, to put a system in place to protect our income.