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The Food Chain

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Examining what it takes to put food on your plate

The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.

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The Food Chain: A farmer's nightmare

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A farmer's nightmare

21/10/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - The Food Chain, A farmer's nightmare

A major worker shortage leaving UK farmers with heartbreaking choices

A major worker shortage leaving UK farmers with heartbreaking choices.

The UK food industry relies on foreign workers, but what happens when they stop coming?
A combination of COVID-19 and Brexit  has led to fewer workers available  to pick, process and transport food. For some farmers it has led to heartbreaking dilemmas. Tamasin Ford speaks to two pig farmers who face having to kill thousands of healthy pigs, and a salad farmer who has seen millions of lettuce heads rot in his fields.

(Picture: farmer in field, Credit: Getty/BBC)

If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk

Contributors:
Vicky Morgan, pig farmer, Pockthorpe Hall Farm, East Yorkshire, UK
Kate Morgan, pig farmer, Pockthorpe Hall Farm, East Yorkshire, UK
Nick Ottewell, Farming and Commercial Director at LJ Betts Ltd, Kent, England

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