Editor's View: Do retailers still care about farm assurance?
There is a certain type of child who picks up their football and takes it home rather than suffer the indignity of losing the game.
The trouble for these fragile youngsters is the teasing from their friends is often worse than suffering a temporary sporting setback.
So it is tempting this week to make fun of supermarket lobbyists at the British Retail Consortium (BRC), a body that represents members with a combined £350bn of sales annually but that doesn’t have time to help with the UK Farm Assurance Review.
See also: Retail body snubs farm assurance monitoring review
In the latest update into the ongoing work by many organisations to implement the recommendations of the review – first published in January 2025 – it was revealed that the poor old supermarket lobbyists are simply too busy to participate.
No comment from the BRC.
Author's summary: Retailers' attitude to farm assurance is questioned.
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