A significant amount of the UK’s meat production may become non-compliant for export to the EU if proposed changes are implemented, the sheep sector has warned.

British beekeeper told his order of baby Italian bees would be ‘destroyed’ if he tries to import them

RUMOURS that surfaced this week over the watering-down or scrapping of farm payments that rewards landowners for their environmental work has stoked anger amongst the Cumbrian farming community.

Patrick Murfet says he tried to import bees via Northern Ireland but was told they would be destroyed.

A disorderly break with the European Union at the end of the year poses a bigger threat to Britain’s food supplies than the coronavirus pandemic that saw supermarket shelves emptied, a Parliamentary committee warned.

Shadow international trade minister Gareth Thomas asked Defra what assessment it has made of the reasons for the UK florist industry's decline in trade with the EU.

The Brexit trade deal hailed as a £148 million boost to the UK fishing fleet over the next five years will instead punish the industry to the tune of more than £300m, a new report says.

The Environmental Information Regulation allows the public to demand data from private water companies, but it is at risk of being scrapped by the Government.

Exports of seafood and meat products to the EU have been disrupted since the end of the transition period on January 1st, with businesses of all sizes reporting losing money and trade due to bureaucratic border processes. ... House of Commons EFRA Committee today launch an inquiry into how the Government can support meat and fish exporters.

Exclusive: recruiters told military-style operation could stay open for two years.

Defra also confirms enforcing NDAs despite Theresa May’s criticism of such contracts.

Exclusive: Britain is falling behind the bloc on almost every area of green regulation, analysis reveals.

The UK's Environment Information Regulations have enabled researchers and campaigners to force water firms to publish data on river pollution, but they may be scrapped as part of the Brexit process.

The U.K. government has spent at least 4.4 billion pounds ($5.7 billion) preparing for Brexit since the 2016 referendum, according to figures released by the National Audit Office.

Island ministers 'yet to see any firm proposals' on UK replacement funding.

This week's Brexit downsides: half a billion in extra costs to import food, the collapse of trade talks with Canada and more.

The NFU warned Britain had been left for years without proper checks and balances on food imports from EU.

Ministers have approved the emergency use of neonicotinoids against the advice of their own experts in a move branded ‘unacceptable’ by environmental groups.

Britain’s government has spent at least 4.4 billion pounds of taxpayers’ money on preparations to leave the European Union, the public spending watchdog said on Friday, in the first detailed estimate of the cost of Brexit.

Brussels official says UK has ‘non-regression obligation’ to protect waters as part of trade deal.

Almost 50% decline shows need for veterinary deal to ease ‘red tape mountain’, says Labour.

Fears of ‘unimaginable’ supply chain collapse triggered by 60,000-strong shortfall of HGV drivers.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has advised that should the UK leave the EU next year without a deal, there would be important implications for pet owners wishing to travel overseas with their animals from 30 March 2019.

Confusion over ability to sell to Northern Ireland after 31 December hits farmers hard.

Institute of Government says there is more work for the Civil Service to do now that the UK has left the EU

Civil servants across Whitehall have been instructed to ramp up their emergency no-deal planning, with preparations including hiring staff for a 24-hour “emergency centre”.

FOI request from Green MP Caroline Lucas denied on grounds it would threaten EU negotiations

European media responded with shock and disbelief this morning after a minister in Northern Ireland ordered to end checks on food in his country and the UK declared it won’t do anything about it.

PROPOSALS by Edwin Poots' department for post-Brexit support for agriculture could threaten the livelihood of hundreds of small farmers, according to the chair a Stormont committee.

There is "a lot of uncertainty" about the UK's capacity to patrol fishing waters after a no-deal Brexit, a government memo mistakenly emailed to the BBC has revealed.

Officials responsible for UK food supply now working 24/7 despite Theresa May's push for a Brexit delay.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove’s department moves two thirds of staff to work on Brexit. / More than two thirds of staff working at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have been assigned Brexit-related roles.

The European Union has told the UK shellfish industry that thousands of tonnes of oyster, mussel, clam, cockle and scallop exports are banned from the bloc indefinitely.

With three months to go before the UK could leave the European Union (EU), farmers say they still face uncertainty about future subsidy levels. / "We could be wiped out like the coal industry."

The UK has promised a greener and more pleasant land after breaking free of the EU’s farming subsidy programme. But some warn that the new plans could leave small farms at a disadvantage and leave British farmers on uneven and uncertain ground.

The government is planning to water down the regulatory requirements on key chemicals, in what experts fear could be the first move to a weaker post-Brexit safety regime for potentially toxic substances.

Talks on quotas collapsed on Friday, endangering jobs and threatening to push up price of fish and chips.

Government scheme to replace EU agricultural payments fuelled by ‘blind optimism’ and still lacking crucial details, say MPs.

Farmers are waking up to the effect Brexit could have on their industry, says PETER HETHERINGTON.

MPs on the Commons spending watchdog have accused Environment Secretary George Eustice of “blind optimism” to suggest otherwise.

Mark Tufnell says many farmers are reluctant to trust government as changes to subsidy payments loom.

Just a tiny fraction of England’s farms have received payment under the government’s sustainable farming incentive.

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.

Farmers have held a protest outside government offices in York over claims the pig industry is at risk of collapse.

A new parliamentary report warned the “blind optimism” shown by Tory ministers could force many small and tenant farmers in England out of business - but environment secretary George Eustice insists UK farmers are better off since Brexit.

Soil Association raises concerns over chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef.

The UK food industry has asked the government to waive aspects of competition law to allow firms to co-ordinate and direct supplies with each other after a no-deal Brexit.

The UK food industry has threatened to stop co-operating with government policy consultations, saying it is busy trying to stave off the "catastrophic impact" of a no-deal Brexit.

Ruptures have once again emerged across government over the direction of the UK’s post-Brexit trade policy, with environment secretary George Eustice raising concerns about a potential deal with India.

Erik Millstone examines the precarious nature of food safety in the UK after the Brexit referendum and points out that prevention is always better than cure.

Strategy described as ‘missed opportunity’ as final wording merely commits to ‘considering’ animal welfare.

From Welsh lamb to Scotch whisky and Stilton cheese, the protection of British geographical indications (GIs) are unlikely to cause any great headache after Brexit, although care will be needed when handling the issue in future trade talks.

"He can’t wriggle out of this one, the net is closing in on him," Luke Pollard said.

Drone pictures reveal how a giant Brexit border control site off the M20 near Ashford is now sitting empty.

As changes wrought by Brexit slash and burn £1.8bn of direct payments to English farmers by 2027, experts warn that government optimism over agriculture in England is dangerously misplaced.

We looked at breakdowns by analysts and the government on the money spent so far, and the estimates on what is still to come.

International trade minister Liz Truss is reportedly preparing a “big concession package” to secure a trade deal with Donald Trump and the United States.

It is hard to dispute the idea that London did not prioritise finding a solution to the Brexit problems facing Northern Ireland, a former top Stormont civil servant has said.

A lonely giraffe has become a victim of Brexit-related bureaucracy over animal imports, according to a zoo.

Civil servants in the Cabinet Office will run a new unit to tackle 'misleading' stories about no deal Brexit.

The fisheries minister has refused to say sorry for the government's handling of the post-Brexit shellfish saga amid tough questions from exporters whose sales to the European Union have been torpedoed since the New Year.

There are more EU era environmental laws to review after Brexit than had been previously known, the environment secretary has suggested.

The long-delayed new rules, coming into force on Wednesday, are part of the UK Government’s introduction of a series of checks this year.

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.

Meanwhile, in the real world, we have seen a catastrophic slump, by 41%, of all our exports to the Continent. / Trade between Welsh ports and Ireland (which remains in the single market) has seen a decline of 50% in Holyhead, and 40% in Pembrokeshire.

A no-deal Brexit could cost the farming industry £850m a year in lost profits, new research seen by the BBC suggests.

The UK government is due to hold emergency talks with industry leaders today after discovering that the country doesn't have the right pallets to continue exporting goods to the European Union if it crashes out without a deal next month.

Some 45,000 dairy cows could be culled in Northern Ireland, in the event of a no-deal Brexit if new higher tariffs are applied to British milk, senior industry figures have warned.

79 organisations have joined together to write an open letter to the Prime Minister urging her to change the Government's trajectory on environmental deregulation, which is set to harm our people, planet and prosperity.

New post-Brexit border rules, set to come into effect on Wednesday, have sparked fears of "serious biosecurity risks" and disruption to supply chains.

Ministers were accused on Tuesday of condemning another generation of children to breathing toxic air in London and other parts of Britain by setting a target to tackle it only by 2040.

Scotland’s salmon sector has expressed frustration over the "painfully slow" implementation of measures to smooth trade flow and open new markets since Brexit.

New staff needed to cope with the government’s controversial retained EU laws bill will cost Whitehall dearly in a financial crisis.

Legal school meal nutrition standards may need to be amended, or discarded, in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to internal local council planning documents seen by the BBC.

THE UK minister responsible for fishing rights has been urged to explain why a Scottish vessel was detained in France.

SCOTTISH sheep farmers have blasted a Tory minister's "laughable" claim about the potential for selling lamb to the EU after Brexit.

‘Releasing information for public scrutiny is a key pillar of our democracy,’ says Greenpeace

The UK is threatening health and marine life on the French coast by allowing raw sewage to be dumped in the Channel and North Sea, say three Euro MPs.

According to the House of Commons Library, UK shellfish exports to the EU in 2021 were 17% lower in cash terms than 2019, a fall of almost £70 million.

This week I was contacted by a retired CEO of a major wine wholesaler. They, unbeknownst to me, had asked their local MP John Penrose (Weston-super-Mare, Somerset) if he thought it was acceptable that my wine business had been obliged to open a site in the EU to mitigate Brexit costs.

One year after Brexit, Scotland’s fishing industry is still mired in chaos, leaving many businesses fearing for their future as deliveries to Europe continue to be snarled in costly red tape and delays.

Ministers admitted the industry's "reliance on foreign workers" hadn't been solved after Brexit.

Conservative MPs have urged the government to use its Brexit freedoms to ditch the EU’s cautious approach to making sure pesticides are safe for human consumption.

EU restricts use of eight chemicals, with 16 more in pipeline; UK has two under consideration.

Analysis finds changes such as removal of blanket ban on hormone-disrupting chemicals. / The UK has been accused of “silently eroding” key environmental and human health protections in the Brexit-inspired rush to convert thousands of pages of European Union pesticide policy into British law.

Co-founder of Cheshire Cheese Company told by environment minister to look at US and Canada markets rather than EU.

The UK government is yet to respond to a request by the food industry to waive parts of competition law so that companies can cooperate after a no-deal Brexit to mitigate food shortages.

Environment secretary George Eustice wants to tear up a key piece of European law that environmentalists say protects cherished habitats in the UK.

The “blind optimism” shown by UK government ministers in their plans for the future of England’s farms could result in many small and tenant farmers being forced out of business, a parliamentary report has warned.

There has been no progress made by Defra and the horticulture industry in securing permission for UK growers to export currently prohibited plants to the EU.

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Council has approved proposals from the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to allow temporary veterinary registrants to undertake Official Veterinarian (OV) work at slaughterhouses.

Experts warn UK’s regulations now lag behind those of the EU and that Britons will be exposed to more toxic chemicals as a result.

The government is to loosen EU-derived laws on chemicals in a move experts say will increase the likelihood of toxic substances entering the environment.

Salmon Scotland, the trade body that represents the industry, has expressed its frustration over ongoing red tape which has now cost an estimated £12million extra since Brexit.

Government officials hold talks after they realise UK has shortage of the right pallets.

The Foundation for Common Land (FCL) has highlighted ongoing concerns about the viability of upland farmers and commoners during the transition away from direct support in England.

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

Instead of protecting the natural world, the proposed Office for Environmental Protection ‘could undermine the rule of law’, and lead to worse damage than under EU, lawyers say

This is the story of Luka the Amur leopard ... No prizes for guessing that Luka was going to be yet another victim of Brexit.

Fishing has been one of the key sticking points in talks over a future UK/EU trade deal.

Government must engage more coherently with farmers, or new plans will ‘fall at first hurdle’, committee warns.

Ellie Newis reviews two of the flagship free trade agreements that were supposed to reignite the UK economy.