OPERATION STACK on the approaches to Dover UK MEAT businesses are suffering post-Brexit hold ups which could damage the long-term future of red meat exports. Shipments of meat destined for EU customers are reportedly rotting at ports, caught up in the UK s new paper-based customs system, which has been condemned as a relic by the fresh food businesses now trying to use it. Exporters have warned that European buyers frustrated by these delays may now go looking for alternative sources – and pointed out that, with many businesses holding back from sending shipments into the logjam, the current problems had arisen from coping with just 20% of the normal trade.
A small fold of black Highland cattle enjoying the sunset over Loch Awe, near Dalmally. They are part of the much larger Cladich fold of Highlanders belonging to Jon and Queenie Strickland, and are running with Balach Dubh of Craigowmill, an aged bull bou UK GOVERNMENT officials need to wake up to the severity of the threat posed by African swine fever and enforce stricter biosecurity measures. This message came at the start of October, from pig farmer and chair of NFU Scotland’s pigs committee, Jamie Wyllie, who has criticised the powers that be for failing to prepare the country for a disease which could ‘devastate its pig population’ and threaten food security. He told The SF that other pig-producing countries were taking much more stringent measures to protect their herds from ASF, which leads to 100% pig mortality. “During a recent trip to Canada, every poster on the way down to collect my luggage warned of ASF and we had to sign declaration cards on entry with questi