Farmers have warned of this for years, we were dismissed as whinging subsidy grabbers, so now it will be our fault when prices rise. The blame lies firmly elsewhere at govt and the supermarkets door.

When some small part of the rise feeds through to us who actually produce the food and new fuels the world depends on can we expect headlines again about greedy farmers? Mind you if its as bad as I think the headlines will be of shortages and how can we fix the problem? Pity the answers will take years and many billions to deliver.