A time for young people in food and fuel business

The car park is greened over and in the ring, dust, cobwebs, and pigeons roost, but listen, can you hear the staccato of the auction, smell the damp wool and perhaps a whiff of tobacco smoke? Well it's all in the past now – gone for ever.

The demolition team move in soon and by this time next year a stark business park will stand where once the farming community congregated. You face the future. Like it or not.

Old men – and some young ones – rue the day the market directors decided to sell. They are now all the richer, while those old men feel all the poorer and they will sit in their kitchens and once more say 'they don't want us any more, so get away out you young 'uns while you can'. Just who are they?

Everyone in this industry has to realise we are going through a huge restructuring process that doesn't just stop at Hull or Dover. It is reverberating right across the EU, it will go on right across the globe's fertility and there is nothing that is going to stop it.