Farming campaign 'The Trailer of Truth' visited Exmoor's Blackmoor Gate Market.

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00:00I've just been up at Blackmoor Gate in Devon with Farmers to Action.

00:04They're a trailer of truth which is travelling the country.

00:06I'm Richard White, a beef and sheep farmer from North Devon.

00:10I'm here today with Farmers to Action and other farming groups in Unity

00:14showing awareness to the government that we haven't gone away.

00:18We haven't actually got a clear path of where the industry's going

00:21and I think we need to sit round the table with a blank piece of paper

00:26and, you know, we produce food but we subsidise it.

00:33We work for very little money.

00:35Everything we do earn goes back into the farm.

00:38We're heading to Liverpool with this trailer and to the Labour conference

00:43and it would be great to meet Emma Reynolds, the new DEFRA Minister,

00:49and discuss our issues.

00:51... respect. That's what we're here for, is to help us get our food

00:56to our people and help them to get nice food, good food and a good buy.

01:00Selling our food, etc. and everything else and just helping the farmers

01:03and I think they should all be on our side helping us.

01:06We're here to do a job and that's what we like to do.

01:09That's what we prove that we want to do for people to help them.

01:12And it's sending a very simple message to Labour

01:14that if you want to ensure that this country is able to feed itself,

01:18that it has that national security,

01:21you need to change your track with the family farm tax

01:24and you also need to restore the nature-friendly farming funding

01:29so that farmers are able to produce the food that we all need.

01:32Now this trailer is going all over the country,

01:34all the way up to Liverpool for Labour Party conference

01:37and Labour must listen to our nation's farmers

01:40because without them there is no future.