{"id":29553,"date":"2026-05-06T02:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/29553\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:54:29","slug":"one-year-on-the-hidden-impact-of-trumps-trade-deal-with-the-uk-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/29553\/","title":{"rendered":"One year on: The hidden impact of Trump\u2019s trade deal with the UK \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers like Mills have managed to find alternative buyers, but at a cost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had to find other intakes,\u201d he said. \u201cWhereas before we could produce [wheat] for ethanol and animal feed, it\u2019s now just going solely for animal feed. And because there\u2019s more wheat available in the U.K., prices are depressed. Our ability to make a profit has been drastically impacted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further north, the impact has been even more stark. In September last year, when the Ensus plant was mothballed, the loss of domestic bioethanol demand effectively knocked around \u00a38 to \u00a310 per ton off local wheat prices.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Askew, an arable farmer outside Newcastle who supplies the plant, said the closure wiped around \u00a325,000 off his bottom line this season. \u201cThat\u2019s a whole wage,\u201d he said. \u201cWe barely cover our costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Government support<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, as the Iran war sparked fears of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-deals-double-blow-to-the-great-british-pint\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">carbon dioxide shortage<\/a>, the U.K. government swooped in with a \u00a3100 million support package to temporarily restart production at Ensus \u2014 a key domestic source of the gas, which is essential to industries from food and drink to healthcare.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Local wheat prices have since recovered somewhat, but Askew said the rebound only underlined the fragility of the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farmers like Mills have managed to find alternative buyers, but at a cost. \u201cWe\u2019ve had to find other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[156,2095,453,516,585,2098,710,361,1359,188,12887,587,588,589,7385,7386,2169,12888,1921,501,502,94,1049,7387,160,162,225,7388,1143,12889,505,167,507,168,5,6,461,462,12890],"class_list":{"0":"post-29553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-carbon","10":"tag-cars","11":"tag-conflict","12":"tag-dairy","13":"tag-data","14":"tag-development","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-dumping-duties","17":"tag-energy-prices","18":"tag-ethanol","19":"tag-exports","20":"tag-farmers","21":"tag-farms","22":"tag-feed","23":"tag-fertilizers","24":"tag-fuels","25":"tag-grains","26":"tag-healthcare","27":"tag-imports","28":"tag-industry","29":"tag-keir-starmer","30":"tag-king-charles-iii","31":"tag-livestock","32":"tag-markets","33":"tag-negotiations","34":"tag-oil","35":"tag-produce","36":"tag-scotland","37":"tag-seeds","38":"tag-steel","39":"tag-supply-chains","40":"tag-tariffs","41":"tag-trade","42":"tag-uk","43":"tag-united-kingdom","44":"tag-united-states","45":"tag-war","46":"tag-wheat"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116525377990044155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}