Farming UK:
Exchange rate and other favourable countries sees UK migrant labour shortage
22 September 2017
NFU Scotland warns that this will only "get worse year on year" for Scotland's soft fruit and vegetable sectors. The pre and post Brexit employment needs of Scotland’s fast-growing horticultural sector were outlined at a meeting of the UK’s Migration Advisory Committee in Edinburgh this week. NFU Scotland’s Horticulture Committee Chairman James Porter, who grows soft fruit as part of a mixed farming enterprise at East Scryne, Carnoustie met with Professor Alan Manning, chair of the Migration Advisory Committee at a roundtable meeting with stakeholders.