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Food price cap plans giving farmer 'sleepless nights'
East Lothian farmer Jamie Wyllie is says price cap plans are giving him sleepless nights
As a farmer, Jamie Wyllie is used to getting by on little sleep. His job requires long hours and hard graft.
But now he said something else is keeping him up at night – the prospect of the Scottish government introducing price caps for some essential food items.
Ministers say that the big supermarket chains will take the financial hit, insisting "bold action" is needed to help households.
But Wyllie's fear is that the costs will get passed down the production chain, and ultimately come to rest with his family farm which is making "little to no margin as it is".
Wyllie is an office holder in the National Union of Farmers in Scotland, so is in regular contact with fellow farmers.
And they're not the only interested parties who have expressed concerns.
Just last week 23 organisations wrote to the first minister to call on him to ditch the policy.
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