Open consultation

Contractual practice in the UK combinable crops sector

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 10 December 2025

Summary

Seeking views on contractual practices in the combinable crops sector to understand how supply relationships between farmers and purchasers can be improved.

This consultation is being held on another website.

This consultation closes at
11:59pm on 4 February 2026

Consultation description

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) wants to know what you think about: 

• how the combinable crops sector currently works 
• the nature of relationships in the supply chain 
• whether the functioning of the combinable crops supply chain can be improved, and how 

This consultation will inform our understanding of issues concerning fairness and transparency within the sector. Your responses will help us to design future policy aimed at promoting better business practice and making the supply chain fairer for all. 

You can also view a Welsh language version of this consultation.

Published 10 December 2025