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.

With a lack of foreign labour in Britain’s fields, crops are rotting and thousands of healthy pigs are being culled unnecessarily.

Unprecedented labour shortages have left hundreds of tonnes of produce rotting in the fields.

The number of seasonal workers applying to work at one Kent-based company is down 90% in the last two years and there are fears for the future.