A farmer has told ITV News Central 500 tonnes of beetroot has been left to rot because his usual European customers are looking elsewhere.

Fruit and vegetables are being left to rot in England as Brexit deters migrants from taking up picking jobs.

Sir Roger Gale (Tory MP) says one farming business in his constituency has had to trash £320,000 worth of produce due to no pickers and no drivers. / There are cries of “Brexit, Brexit” around the house… and the Govt front bench looks nervous.

At New Smithfield Market the Chancellor's claims that Brexit would 'energise' Britain's economy were given short shrift.

ALISTER Jack has been told to apologise to the people of Scotland for the "unmitigated disaster" of Brexit as he faced angry MPs in the Commons.

Talk at this week’s NFU conference will be alive with financial, labour and competition concerns.

The rain in Spain has largely been blamed, but is it the only factor?

Producers having to throw away vast amounts of produce after EU labour dries up.

Labour shortages and price rises triggered by Brexit and the pandemic could leave the British food and farming industry permanently damaged, MPs have warned.

Business grew to the extent that the company began exporting successfully to Europe, where its products were becoming increasingly popular. That was, until Brexit.

Several hundred tonnes of beetroot have been left to rot on Will Woodhall's farm in central England due to Brexit.

A THIRD of Scotland’s largest brassica crop has been left to rot in the field because Brexit ended access for seasonal pickers.

Kent farming giant reports 8% fall in harvest due to lack of seasonal pickers – saying it’s easier to import fruit.

Thousands of pigs have been ‘unnecessarily culled’ because exporting to the EU has become too expensive and difficult since the end of the Brexit transition period, industry leaders have warned.

British food prices are set to surge 15% this summer and will remain high for at least a year, in a further blow to hard-pressed consumers already struggling with the cost-of-living crisis, according to a report released on Thursday.

Brexit-induced labour shortages are going to be a limiting factor in the pursuit of growth, growth, growth

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

Some British dairy farmers have been forced to destroy tens of thousands of litres of milk due to rising costs, labour shortages and an acute deficit of truck drivers which has strained supply chains to breaking point, farmers said.

Some British dairy farmers have been forced to destroy tens of thousands of litres of milk due to rising costs, labour shortages and an acute deficit of truck drivers which has strained supply chains to breaking point, farmers said.

Treasury silent on damage being caused by Brexit to Britain’s economy and Bank of England accused of being reluctant to talk about it.

Crops left unharvested, healthy pigs culled and increased costs which will ultimately have to be swallowed by the consumer. Not going well, is it?

The Covid pandemic has exacerbated the problems caused by Britain leaving the EU, the report found.

British dairy farmers say they have poured tens of thousands of litres of milk away due to the HGV driver shortage - and fear it is just the "tip of the iceberg" ahead of winter.

Produce has gone unpicked after EU migrant workers stayed away.

It comes as Brexit means fall in crops and fewer British products in supermarkets. / Leaving the EU has led to a decline in crops and fewer home-grown products on the shelves of Britain’s supermarkets, farming chiefs have warned, reports The Independent.

BREXIT is to blame for conditions that caused a Scottish blueberry farmer to donate his £3 million crop to charity, according to an SNP MP. / Peter Thomson, who has around 60 acres of blueberry bushes on his farm in Blairgowrie, announced that it was no longer economically worthwhile for him to harvest the crop due to the value of the fruit falling by around £1 million this year.

A Coventry farmer was forced to throw tonnes of crops before they rot due to worker shortages on his farm since Brexit.

An estimated 200,000 pigs are backed up on farms because of a lack of skilled butchers to process them, while 40,000 animals have already been culled and their meat thrown away, farmers said this morning.

Rural voters say they’re being neglected by the government – and farmers are disgruntled too, warning that rising costs could lead to food shortages… and that post-Brexit trade deals will see them losing out to cheap imports.

This “disaster should have and could have been avoided”, and that the situation pig farmers find themselves in “truly is an utter disgrace”.

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

A dairy farmer said he was told to dump his milk after a shortage of lorry drivers meant it could not be collected.

With the pandemic worsening supply chain problems and UK worker shortages caused by Brexit, there’s a chance we may need to adapt our Christmas dinners this year.

As gaps continue to appear on supermarkets shelves and restaurants take unavailable items off menus, Britain’s supply chains appear to be at the centre of a perfect storm of pandemic disruption coupled with post-Brexit labour shortages.

National Farmers Union calls for post-Brexit rules on seasonal workers to be eased to plug gaps.

Marks & Spencer has warned of the risk of price pressures, less choice, and food being thrown away when post-Brexit rules on imports from the EU take effect at the start of next month.

A lack of food and farm workers “caused by Brexit and accentuated by the pandemic” meant at least 35,000 pigs were culled and tonnes of crops left to rot in the fields last year, a damning report has revealed.

Vets working to tackle pigs’ overcrowding in farms have said Prime Minister Boris Johnson is not taking the abattoir labour shortage seriously, and soon ‘mass culling’ would be the only option left to farmers.

3.5m heads of broccoli and 1.9m heads of cauliflower have been thrown away by just one producer.

Firms will have to pass on extra costs of red tape, warns Fresh Produce Consortium.

Pig farmers are in a “desperate” position – with culls of thousands of healthy animals and producers quitting the industry, they warned as a summit was held on the crisis.

Labour shortages caused by Brexit and accentuated by the COVID pandemic have badly affected businesses across the food and farming sector and could cause ‘permanent’ damage, UK lawmakers stated in a report published on Wednesday (6 April).

Sir Roger Gale said one firm has had to trash £320,000 worth of produce "because there are no pickers and no drivers".

Britain has been outside the EU’s legal regime for a year and has faced a number of impacts.

Every farmers' worst nightmare is coming to pass; the mass culling of healthy animals because there simply aren't enough butchers to process them and get them off farms... So how did we get here?

The government’s food strategy lacks detail or any plans for implementation, and it is contradicted by its other policies.

From one end of the supply chain to the other, the UK's food producers have endured a summer of trouble.

Environment Secretary Therese Coffey said the British government can't force people to do specific jobs. / The exchange came as MPs were asking the environment secretary how farmers can get more labourers to work in fields to prevent food rotting in fields.

Five hundred tonnes of beetroot is being left to rot due to a collapse in demand, caused by Brexit, a farmer says.

ITV News has figures showing tonnes of food is being wasted, as a shortage of farm workers means some UK crops are not being harvested.

Tesco has told ministers its suppliers are wasting nearly 50 tonnes of food a week because of the worsening HGV driver shortage, The Grocer has learned.

Before Brexit most of Britain's seasonal crop pickers came over from eastern Europe.

Loss of 100,000 hauliers due to Covid and Brexit will cause food ‘rolling power cuts’, experts warn

A food manufacturer dubbed ‘the chicken king’ has warned Covid-19 and Brexit could result in the worst food shortages since the war.

A recent government report warned that labour shortages "caused by Brexit and accentuated by the pandemic" were badly affecting our food and farming sector, with fruit suppliers often forced to leave produce rotting in the fields.

Farming union chief says situation ‘nothing short of a travesty’, as crops also hit by drought and record heat.

It comes as the Brexit "divorce bill" negotiated by the PM is up to £5 billion higher than the UK government expected.

Philip Simpson, commercial director at ReFood, discusses the findings of WRAP’s recent report into commercial food waste trends and explains why the supply chain must be prepared for further disruption as we head into 2023.

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