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From the editor: 'If the country is to have guaranteed food security, then stability and certainty is needed within supply chains'

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From the editor: 'If the country is to have guaranteed food security, then stability and certainty is needed within supply chains'

With tension across all areas of farming policy at the moment and the Government lurching from one political misstep to another, the phrase 鈥榗ontrol the controllable' is at risk of being overused 鈥� but...

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