The BBC have been advertising their own stuff for years, at one time many years ago one programme would follow another with just an announcement of what is coming next. Now the programmes all end 5 minutes early so they can get in all their adverts of forthcoming stuff, often next month.
Of course they do @pete ! They have competition now from more independent UK TV plus cable, satellite, streaming and digital feeds from round the world. @redstar if you google a bit further there is plenty of evidence that under Biden the democrats sought to support US farmers by introducing measures to improve food security and diversity and to modernise farming so it better meets the needs of consumers. https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/new...ances-agricultural-exports-support-us-economy How Four Years of Biden Reshaped Food and Farming https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/14/trump-biden-farmers-00135396 2023 a Big Year for Climate-Smart Agriculture, President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Under Trump and his crazy tariffs the US has lost billions in beef and soya sales to China which has turned to Brazil and Australia instead. Those tariffs also prevented imports of essential phosphates from Canada who have found new markets in Europe and Asia so no fertlisers left for the US farmers. Canada has also geared up its own dairy industry to replace US milk and cheese products as well as upping trade with other nations and the EU. The activities of ICE mean there aren't enough workers left to harvest other crops so they're left to rot and, when all those farmers go bankrupt and have to sell their land cheap, guess who's behind one of the corporate entities buying them up for a song. JD Vance. Nice game.
But surely the point is we pay a licence fee to keep them advert free, in this case we are paying subscription and still getting bombarded with ads, albeit about just what they do. They certainly have their heads up their own backsides, at our expense.
