Farmers deliver stark warning over losing access to EU seasonal workers

NFU president says ‘food will rot in fields and Britain will lose ability to produce its own food’ unless government guarantees access to workforceFarmers have warned that food will “rot in the fields” and Britain will be unable to produce what it eats if the government cannot guarantee that growers will continue to have access to tens of thousands of EU workers post-Brexit.Meurig Raymond, president of the National Farmers Union, told the body’s annual conference in