Sheep farmers' concerns of no-deal Brexit
04/03/2019
Creating a market for UK lamb to match what is exported to the EU could take up to 10 years in the event of a no-deal Brexit, sheep farmers have warned.
Select committee says government needs contingency plans to protect consumers and businesses from impact from tariffs. / Food prices could rise sharply and farming businesses could be wiped out at the end of a Brexit transition period, a House of Commons committee has warned.
“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.”
The warning comes after similar cautions from the country's leading supermarkets.
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.
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To make Brexit happen, Boris needs to work with the Eurocrats he’s insulted. Fat chance they’ll help him now
08/08/2019
As our prime minister and the no-deal zealots of his cabinet revel in Brexit brinkmanship it is worth recalling the legal realities of what threatens to be our post Halloween world.
Could an independent Wales go it alone?
09/08/2019
Wales is not too poor to be an independent nation. The ex-first minister of Wales believes so anyway, though others are less sure. So, how would Wales fare economically if it had to go it alone in a post-Brexit world?
No-deal Brexit bad for NZ: meat rep
09/08/2019
In the UK there is every expectation of a no-deal, leaving the UK out in the cold overnight, with no agreements in place about the future trading relationship between the UK and EU. That would potentially represent a horror scenario too for New Zealand exports to Europe, Jeff Grant, the UK-based New Zealand red meat sector representative, said.
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A flock of sheep was herded along Whitehall by campaigners who say a no-deal Brexit could force half of UK farms out of business. Six sheep were led by People's Vote campaign group during the launch of its Farmers For A People's Vote offshoot.
A flock of sheep was herded through Westminster by campaigners to highlight the rich of a no-deal Brexit to farmers. Six sheep were led past government buildings by the People's Vote campaign group during the launch of its Farmers For A People's Vote offshoot.
Farmers calling for second EU referendum to herd sheep down Whitehall in protest on Thursday.
A no-deal Brexit could cost the farming industry £850m a year in lost profits, new research seen by the BBC suggests.
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 room' for excess meat in no-deal Brexit
31/07/2019
Government plans to buy up hundreds of thousands of tonnes of unsold lamb in the event of a no-deal Brexit could be unworkable because there is nowhere to store it, BBC Newsnight has learned.
Can farmers send lamb to Japan after Brexit?
30/07/2019
"It is correct to say that Japan has just opened its market to UK lamb imports. But the government's own estimate of the potential worth of the agreement suggests it will be a drop in the ocean compared with current UK lamb exports to the EU."
Country’s claim that meat exports are suffering wins support from 14 countries.
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Brexit trade deal with New Zealand will have 'close to zero' benefit to UK economy, government admits
18/06/2020
Deal could lower welfare of the population and shrink GDP.
SCOTTISH sheep farmers have blasted a Tory minister's "laughable" claim about the potential for selling lamb to the EU after Brexit.
Getting a post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union is "very important to sheep farming", a Tory MP has said.
Talks to prevent EU ban on imports of chilled meats likely to fail – with UK required to do the same.
Thousands of sheep bound for Northern Ireland are stuck "in limbo" in Great Britain due to Brexit complexities.