Because they are being screwed by the supermarkets who try and get one over their competition.(but I think things are improving).So why are farmers selling milk at below cost?
What is your counter-argument for this?
That the supermarkets sell four pints of milk for a pound is not my fault. I am not going to give them an extra fifty pence - or pound - but if the price were £1.50 - or £2.00 - what would I do? Yes, of course, buy it.
That is up to them. The foreign ones are rubbish due to being picked too early because of the transport time.So, you would pay more for British strawberries? Most people buy on price, and buy foreign if it is noticeably cheaper.
Do youngsters realise that strawberries are supposed to be all red - and soft?
You could say that about most of manufacturing - shipbuilding, steel etc.That is why the British shoe industry in Northamptonshire collapsed, and textiles in Leicester collapsed.
That is because of the modern business method - to export the work.As regards imports, we now get a lot more imported fruit and veg, due to more countries in the EU, and cheap transport costs. Oddly strawberries might survive higher wages because they are delicate, but raspberries, apples, cherries, carrots etc won't because they travel well.
We have always imported cheap labour.
Importing coal from Australia does not seem economic nor logical but that's another story - of vindictiveness, subterfuge and lies.