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Exclusive: leaked emails show officials planning crisis centres to manage halt in waste exports to EU.
White Meat or Dark? Carving Up Brexit
05/03/2019
A butcher shop in London. For decades, farmers have been able to sell cuts that Britons shun in Europe, but Brexit could change that.
Irish government says there is no prospect of rethink in Brexit stalemate.
Civil servants in the Cabinet Office will run a new unit to tackle 'misleading' stories about no deal Brexit.
The NFU has said everything must to be done to avoid a no deal Brexit, and the catastrophic impact this could have on British farming.
In a move designed to slow the rise of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” in human health linked to farms, a few days ago the European Parliament approved restrictions on the use of antimicrobials in healthy livestock.
Boris Johnson accused of being ‘out of his depth’ after rebuff in talks with EU’s Juncker
18/09/2019
Unnamed EU officials claim ‘penny dropped’ for PM during talks over future of Irish border. / Opponents of Brexit have accused Boris Johnson of being “out of his depth” after claims emerged of a “penny dropping moment” during his meeting with EU boss Jean-Claude Juncker earlier this week.
With negotiations between the UK and the European Union (EU) - over a trade agreement - going down to the wire, the possibility of there being no deal is being talked about.
More ferries are to sail directly from Ireland to the European mainland in a move to circumvent the traditional trade route over mainland England and Wales.
Local council and MP add to calls for more funding for vital inspection post, without which UK’s livestock breeding industry may be at risk
A live animal border control post needed due to Brexit will not be built at Portsmouth International Port.
'High value' UK livestock trade could be lost after Brexit following cash blow to Portsmouth port
03/02/2021
Portsmouth International Port will only get £17.1 out of £32m, meaning an essential live animal border control point cannot be built.
Lucrative live shellfish trade also hit hard, with consultation over further restrictions on live animal exports ending soon.
It has been another gloomy week on the sunlit uplands of sovereign Britain, as a senior minister accused the EU of seeking “petty revenge” – and then hinted that the government might ban imports of European mineral water and seed potatoes.
A senior Ulster Unionist peer has called for urgent action to address an increasingly serious shortage of vets carrying out official meat inspections in Northern Ireland.
Grace periods for implementing post-Brexit checks on goods going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland are at the centre of tensions between the EU and UK.
New delays to post-Brexit import controls announced despite tax evasion and smuggling fears
11/03/2021
Businesses had warned of Northern Ireland-style disruption to trade if yet more red tape was imposed.
The Managing Director of one of the UK's leading providers of Official Veterinarians and Meat Hygiene Inspectors has strongly criticised the UK Government’s decision to further delay checks on goods entering Great Britain from the European Union.
EU Exit and international trade adviser, Tori Morgan, outlines the main points of the NFU response to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee inquiry on moving animals across borders in our post-Brexit world.
Farmgate prices for lamb and beef have hit a new high over the first months of 2021.
EU said agreement on common rules ‘on the table’ - but UK would probably have to drop prized right to diverge
The introduction of new Brexit checks at the start of the year continued to hamper UK meat exports to the EU in February, new trade figures show.
Volatile farm incomes, live animal exports to the EU, the state of our woodlands - Farming Today
14/04/2021
More than 100 days after the end of the Brexit transition period, the trade in live animals for breeding is still being affected by the changes. Importers report delays, extra paperwork and mounting costs, while live exporting to the EU by sea has come to a complete halt because of a lack of border control posts on the other side of the Channel.