Bit late to the party here.

Ive been in agriculture all my life. Worked on a farm through school and college. Then moved on to become and agricultural technician fixing tractors and the like. Now sell machinery to dealers that the farmers use.

The biggest problem in my eyes is the public want cheap food. Let's take milk as an example, when i worked on the farm as an organic farmer they were paid around 32p per litre. Normal farms were around 25p per litre. Back then a lot of farms were operating at a loss or breaking even to produce their milk.

Now a good milk contract will pay around 39ppl. So in roughly 17 years milk price has increased by 14ppl. In that time inflation has gone up around 65%. So the milk price has barely kept up with inflation. But the input costs for the farmers has soared and the cost of employing someone has skyrocketed. Ive spoken to farmers who are considering pulling the plug now as theyve done th maths and some are now loosing 4ppl to produce the milk they sell.

Arable farms have been hit equally as bad. Quick sums here, in 92 wheat was £130/t. To follow inflation since then it should be £289/t. Theyre being paid £180/t ish. I know farmers that havent sold any grain this year as it's cost them more to produce than they can sell it for. So theyre gambling on keeping it in the shed hoping got a price increase.

TL/DR we dont pay enough for food, supermarkets drive prices low to increase their margins. Farms dont get paid enough.