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New Brexit Border Checks Coming This October
These checks will be on goods entering the UK from the EU , that up till now have not been subject to inspection and will take place away from actual borders, in new lorry parks for goods coming through Dover and the Channel tunnel. This plan will drive up prices and cause shortages as many Eu based exporters will take one look at these proposals and decide to cease supplying UK customers. As the recent tomato shortages and other goods have shown. EU suppliers have plenty of options to sell elsewhere.
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Bishops aside there is much to bash about our country, let's not be coy and view the UK through a Union Jack veil. It's certainly not the worst place in the world, used to be a great place to live and could easily be again if we could only find the right managers.
12:37 Thu 06th Apr 2023
bobb, I doubt anyone was forcibly exported to Rwanda, but this link from last May, ahead of harvest time, says the number of seasonal farm workers was down 75%
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If unemployed Brits don't wish to get their hands dirty then presumably they have it too cushy on welfare. One should not need immigrant fruit & veg pickers. If rewards & conditions are made attractive then folk will be convinced to be self supporting by taking the job and contributing to society. If that means the price rises such that one in undercut by cheap foreign labour then there are at least 2 options. a) the grower gets out of an unprofitable business and invests in something of greater value, and we import fruit & veg instead. Or b) government adds relevant tariffs to make the maket a level playing field for both home growers and cheap labout foreign growers.
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Commercially they can only be grown under glass and with artificial lighting (and heating during very cold spells). With the current cost of energy (or even without it due to the mania to achieve "net zero") there are few commercial tomato growers who grow them in the winter in the UK.
APS Produce is the UK’s largest producer of tomatoes. During the National Farmers' Union conference in Birmingham, Phil Pearson, the company’s group development director said “We have delayed the start of this year’s growing cycle and it will be means it will be another two months before most British tomatoes are ready for picking, This year we have grown later to try to recover some value because everybody's been squeezed on prices - not just for energy, but fertiliser, labour, everything has gone up, So instead of starting harvesting at the end of March, it'll be more like the end of April into May."
The company usually picks 650 million tomatoes a year from 70 hectares, but has let many of its glasshouses stand empty during dark winter days to avoid the cost of lighting them. But even in a normal year, their crop is only available from March onwards - which is hardly "the winter."
Commercially they can only be grown under glass and with artificial lighting (and heating during very cold spells). With the current cost of energy (or even without it due to the mania to achieve "net zero") there are few commercial tomato growers who grow them in the winter in the UK.
APS Produce is the UK’s largest producer of tomatoes. During the National Farmers' Union conference in Birmingham, Phil Pearson, the company’s group development director said “We have delayed the start of this year’s growing cycle and it will be means it will be another two months before most British tomatoes are ready for picking, This year we have grown later to try to recover some value because everybody's been squeezed on prices - not just for energy, but fertiliser, labour, everything has gone up, So instead of starting harvesting at the end of March, it'll be more like the end of April into May."
The company usually picks 650 million tomatoes a year from 70 hectares, but has let many of its glasshouses stand empty during dark winter days to avoid the cost of lighting them. But even in a normal year, their crop is only available from March onwards - which is hardly "the winter."
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