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NFU’s Minette Batters says ‘inept parliament’ forcing firms to spend millions to prepare.
“That means that you will have many farmers going out of business and indeed you would have to look at slaughtering quite a large percentage of the national sheep flock.”
No-deal Brexit could cause mass slaughter of UK lambs as end of European trade spells ‘disaster’ for farmers
08/07/2019
No deal ‘cannot be allowed to happen’, Minette Batters says.
No-deal Brexit is ‘fraught with risk’ and ‘everybody should be worried’, says former top civil servant
08/07/2019
‘Everybody should be worried about what happens in a no-deal situation,’ Philip Rycroft says in interview with BBC Panorama.
British farmers fear they could go out of business following a post-Brexit trade deal with the US, the National Farmers Union has told the BBC.
No-Deal Brexit Tariffs Will 'Destroy' British Firms And 'Betray' Farmers, Say Industry Leaders
08/10/2019
Labour says the government "fiddling while Rome burns" as business groups complain they were ignored.
UK farmers 'betrayed' by government's Brexit tariff plans that risk flooding UK with lower-quality imported food
08/10/2019
British goods face tariffs of up to 60 per cent while many imports won't be charged any under latest Tory plans.
Boris Johnson faces angry backlash from farmers after dismissing post-Brexit food fears as ‘mumbo jumbo’
25/02/2020
Prime minister told that allowing in ‘food which would be illegal to produce here would not only be morally bankrupt, it would be the work of the insane’
"opening our ports, shelves & fridges to food which would be illegal to produce here would not only be morally bankrupt..." - Minette Batters, NFU
26/02/2020
"To sign up to a trade deal which results in opening our ports, shelves & fridges to food which would be illegal to produce here would not only be morally bankrupt, it would be the work of the insane."
Farmers are waking up to the effect Brexit could have on their industry, says PETER HETHERINGTON.
Union and consumer groups warn post-Brexit trade policy must hold food imports to same standards as UK.
Nearly 400,000 people sign British farmers' petition to ban 'low quality' US food imports after Brexit
04/06/2020
A campaign to ban cheap, low-quality food imports from the US in a post-Brexit trade deal has amassed well over 350,000 signatures.
Trade secretary agrees to set up a commission to oversee trade deals amid growing concern over chlorinated chicken imports.
Britain would run out of food by end of week if country relied solely on British food, study finds
17/08/2020
The union representing farming has revealed research which shows Britons would run out of food by the weekend if it was solely reliant on just British food.
Warning of ‘catastrophic’ no-deal Brexit impact on farmers, as minister suggests tariffs on agriculture will not be manageable
06/12/2020
NFU warns of ‘savage’ consequences of failure to secure free trade agreement with EU.
British farming will struggle to compete if zero-tariff trade on lamb and beef goes ahead with a post-Brexit trade deal with Australia, the president of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has said.
NFU says British cattle and sheep farmers will lose out if Australian producers are given tariff-free access.
Can someone tell the government Brexit has already happened? / The government has only now asked the Food Standards Agency to plan how it is going to protect public health and safety after Brexit – almost six months after the transition period for leaving the EU ended.
Australia trade deal will deliver minimal benefit to UK economy and poses risks for farmers, say experts
15/06/2021
Farmers fear that deal will mean they risk being undercut by cheap imports made to lower animal welfare standards.
Brexit deal winners ‘are Australian producers, Australian farmers, indeed Australia full stop’
17/06/2021
The comments, from the acting Australian PM, will send shivers down the spine of the British farming community.
A government body has recommended that protections inherited from the EU to protect UK steel producers are ended.
The UK’s trade agreement with Australia led to British farmers and associations voicing concerns about unfair competition and a lowering of food standards.
Pig farmers are facing a "human disaster" due to a shortage of abattoir workers, the National Farmer's Union has said.