There remains widespread anger amongst Scotland’s farmers and growers amid press reports that the UK Government is to further delay – for the fourth time – the introduction of post-Brexit border controls on animal and plant products imported from the EU.
Post-Brexit checks on fresh farm produce coming to the UK from the EU have been delayed again, the BBC understands. / New import controls on EU food products had been due to begin in October. There is concern that the extra checks on imported goods will push up prices and fuel inflation.
Further delays to introducing post-Brexit border controls on fresh farm produce from the EU 'seriously disregards' the interests of British farmers, NFU Scotland has warned.
While the prime minister lauds Britain's farmers, the industry struggles to cope with a Brexit triple whammy of his government's own making.
Farm incomes could fall by up to 60% with job losses also predicted, a report looking at the impact of the UK’s post-Brexit trade deals on Scotland’s agricultural sector has warned.
Brexit causing seasonal workforce shortage
07/07/2023
A DUP Mournes councillor has blamed Brexit for causing a Northern Ireland workforce shortage. / Newry, Mourne and Down District Council agreed a motion this week to seek extended UK working visas for EU citizens from six months to two years.
Dairy farmer speaks out on Brexit's impact on 'exodus' from the industry and cost of food
02/07/2023
A dairy farmer from Darwen has stated the importance of knowing where your food comes from as mounting pressures threaten the farming industry
Hopefully those in power will realise what a massive lying, misinformation, mistake Brexit was – Sutton St James farmer
01/07/2023
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One of the owners of a family-run dairy farm in Blackburn is calling for action as challenges caused by housing, Brexit and the cost of living crisis continue to crop up.
New poll shows 79% think trade deals with Australia and New Zealand are bad. / Just over half (52%) of farmers said Britain should join the EU and 70% of thought we should at least rejoin the single European market, rising to 85% in the case of those working in the ancillary industries.
Brexit: A bad deal for animals
23/06/2023
A new report released today (23rd June), on the seventh anniversary of the Brexit referendum, reveals that the UK Government has failed to deliver its promise to ‘revolutionise’ animal welfare post-Brexit.
The 10 biggest lies of Brexit
21/06/2023
Seven years since the referendum, how have the “promises” made by the most prominent Brexiteers panned out? Here’s a rundown of the 10 most spectacular untruths.
The Northern Ireland mushroom industry will disappear unless migration rules are relaxed, an industry body has warned.
Local farms and businesses are finding it very difficult to find staff thanks to the restrictions imposed by Brexit.
The Mushroom Growers Association said farms in the north have been left in “a desperate situation which is not of their making”.
THE UK Government has been accused of treating Scotland’s farmers as “expendable” as the trade deal with Australia comes into effect.
A family farm that has been producing soft fruits for 75 years has said rising costs have forced it to stop growing berries. / "Many of them had come to us for years, they knew it was a good place to work," Ms Starkey said. "But with Brexit it became more difficult and they just did not feel welcome."
As the UK-Australia trade deal comes into force, those close to the negotiations reflect on their dramatic — and farcical — climax.
Shadow International Trade Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds has written a letter to the government urging ministers raising his concerns over the 'mess' of a trade deal.
Critical industry leaders have accused Home Secretary Suella Braverman of being disconnected from the realities facing short staffed sectors after she claimed that there is "no good reason" why more British people can't be trained to take up jobs as butchers and fruit pickers.
It comes after a former environment secretary criticised the treatment of farmers in the UK-Australia trade pact.
Animal health bodies have welcomed the government’s U-turn on its plans for scrapping swathes of retained EU legislation, which could have wiped out 44 animal welfare laws.
Former Cabinet minister George Eustice says too much has been given away in the name of free trade.
Getting things to and from mainland UK has affected everyone living in Northern Ireland.