British farmers fear they could go out of business following a post-Brexit trade deal with the US, the National Farmers Union has told the BBC.
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“That means that you will have many farmers going out of business and indeed you would have to look at slaughtering quite a large percentage of the national sheep flock.”
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NFU President Minette Batters said the UK-New Zealand deal, as with the one signed early this year with Australia, has little benefit for British farmers and that a coherent approach is needed to bolster UK farming’s productivity.
Post-Brexit controls on food, plant and animal imports to Britain from the EU have come into force.
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