At the risk of being controversial.

This is just me having a go at the powers that be, in the hope that we might change things.

Chickens coming home to roost

All of a sudden there is talk of food availability and food prices, and that great leader of ours Gordon Brown shows concern for world food supplies, and wishes to be seen as the knight in shining armour. In a nut shell Mr Brown the food price inflation we have at the moment, is the true price of food coming through after years of negative food inflation that did not reflect the true cost of production, and the total distortion of supply and demand by several of the larger players. So where are we going on milk prices? Tesco have added about half of one penny to the price of milk to the farmer for the coming months and as it would seem that the prices in general are set by Tesco the rest will probably follow. Milk production in this country continues to tumble, for a number of reasons, but principally because the amount we are paid does not cover the cost of production. So we have a situation where there is now genuine concern for out ability to feed ourselves and supermarkets behaving as they have for the last 20 years and refusing to pay the price, and milk is only the tip of the iceberg. One has to start asking who runs this country, the Government or the supermarkets. In 1994 we produced 75% of all the food we ate, today it is down to 60%, how long is it going to take to realise that, 'What you don't pay, for you don't get'   Milk price needs to be 30 pence/litre and pretty dam quick or the milk drain will continue. As we see ever increasing fuel prices, it is my belief that Western economies will not cope with this level of fuel inflation. Those with the power have demolished local processing infrastructure to be replaced by massive regional and national processing which necessitates hundreds of miles by road, as the price of the pinta moves relentlessly upwards, there is no longer any choice, the milk has to be driven miles and the cost of milk production is largely ignored. A completely mad scenario, the chickens are coming home to roost Mr Brown.