This week's Brexit downsides: half a billion in extra costs to import food, the collapse of trade talks with Canada and more.

NFU warns blanket import checks from April could fuel long delays and damage future crops. / The UK’s fruit and flower growers face an “existential threat” from new post-Brexit border checks that could damage business and affect next year’s crops, the country’s biggest farming body has said.

The Fresh Produce Consortium said the April draft proposals would have had a “devastating financial impact”.

The war in Ukraine and Brexit has led to serious problems for Kent farmers.