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After a difficult week for the food supply chain, there are warnings that consumers will pick up the bill. Food prices will inevitably rise as a result of the increasing costs farmers and food producers are facing - the Environment Secretary George Eustice says that’s ‘undeniable’.
Minette Batters, the President of the National Farmers' Union, has called for the future supply of C02 to be made much more secure. Carbon dioxide is used to stun both pigs and poultry before slaughter and The British Poultry Council warns that without it, we would see food shortages and animal welfare consequences on farms.
There's an update on the post-Brexit farm subsidy plans across the UK - the Welsh Rural Affairs Secretary announced that theirs won’t be brought in until 2025, while Northern Ireland heard they’d be getting more than £15 million extra.
And we visit a Thames Water sewage works in Hampshire, to find out how the waste we flush down the loo is processed and spread out as fertiliser on farmers' fields.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.