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From one end of the supply chain to the other, the UK's food producers have endured a summer of trouble.
A dairy farmer said he was told to dump his milk after a shortage of lorry drivers meant it could not be collected.
Fruit and vegetables are being left to rot in England as Brexit deters migrants from taking up picking jobs.
3.5m heads of broccoli and 1.9m heads of cauliflower have been thrown away by just one producer.
Marks & Spencer has warned of the risk of price pressures, less choice, and food being thrown away when post-Brexit rules on imports from the EU take effect at the start of next month.
A food manufacturer dubbed ‘the chicken king’ has warned Covid-19 and Brexit could result in the worst food shortages since the war.
Vegetables discarded in field due to Brexit and Covid as divorce bill £5bn higher than expected
09/07/2021
It comes as the Brexit "divorce bill" negotiated by the PM is up to £5 billion higher than the UK government expected.
Loss of 100,000 hauliers due to Covid and Brexit will cause food ‘rolling power cuts’, experts warn
Tesco has told ministers its suppliers are wasting nearly 50 tonnes of food a week because of the worsening HGV driver shortage, The Grocer has learned.
Tonnes of British-grown fruit wasted over shortages of EU workers amid no deal Brexit fears
04/10/2019
ITV News has figures showing tonnes of food is being wasted, as a shortage of farm workers means some UK crops are not being harvested.