Plant exports fall post-Brexit
11/08/2021
Increased costs and restrictions on the UK horticulture industry to export to the EU have seen a 39% drop in the value of trade in the first six months of the year.
A Devon garden centre company has blamed Brexit for a staff shortage as it gives away £100,000 worth of plants for free.
Centers do not have the staff needed to look after the plants.
Johnsons of Whixley group MD Graham Richardson is seeing a prolonged season but Brexit plant inspection costs - as well as the peat issue - are causing disquiet.
A top European Union official said Wednesday that Britain could face retaliatory tariffs or other sanctions after talks failed to resolve an increasingly heated dispute over implementation of their post-Brexit trade deal in Northern Ireland.
New APHA plant health fees of up to £183 could damage UK nurseries.
EU proposes the UK temporarily align on plant and animal rules to remove Irish Sea checks.
The UK’s milk and cream exports to the EU have dropped by 96% ‘because of the post-Brexit trade deal’s red tape’, new figures show.
After a Horticulture Week Freedom of Information request to Defra, the Government has disclosed the proportion of plant and seed imports that have been inspected since Brexit.
Shoppers frustrated by delays, shortages and rising costs.
A survey of garden centres in Flemish Brabant has found that many of them are currently suffering from a shortage of flowers, trees and plants for sale to their green-fingered customers.
The renewed tension in Northern Ireland could have far-reaching implications for the future of the United Kingdom - and post-Brexit relations with the EU.
Firms across four different sectors share their stories of rising costs, extra paperwork and packages that never arrive.
Plant and seed importers are asking why they are bothering with additional post-Brexit paperwork and expense when their plants are not always being inspected under new import controls.
Red tape and a labour shortage leave retailers and millions of lockdown gardeners with scant pickings.
A major daffodil grower in the fens say they only have a fifth of their usual number of pickers this year because of Brexit.
EU said agreement on common rules ‘on the table’ - but UK would probably have to drop prized right to diverge
In a “normal year” around 150 pickers would harvest the daffodils, but this year they have just 30.
But as a lockdown boom drives demand, retailers are warning of a looming cactus crisis. Brexit is being blamed. / The British Cactus and Succulent Society said bureaucracy and border checks may ruin the hobby.
The timetable for the major new controls that have already been imposed and those that have been delayed
Lord Frost, Boris Johnson’s Brexit minister, is reportedly considering allowing “lighter touch” controls on imports from 1 April.
Red tape means Neil Alcock’s Seiont Nurseries in Caernarfon has a four-day marathon via France, Holland and England – at £280 a trolley instead of £100