The Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) is urging prime minister Johnson and his new administration to consider carefully the drastic affect that leaving the EU without a deal could have on the UK’s overseas labour network. The Association says despite...
UK dairy farmers have criticised the government’s migration adviser for ignoring its and other agricultural sectors’ need for European labour as UK staff are not available. The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC)’s final report into migration from the European Economic...
The loss of the UK horticultural sector through a lack of migrant labour “would not be catastrophic” for the UK economy, concludes a government advisor. But industry bodies refute this, and stress that a lack of labour would affect the whole agri-food and rural...