Lot of unpicked fruit rotting !!

[startinghandle]

I have just heard on the radio about a huge amount of apples, raspberries and other fruit going to waste because of lack of pickers and brexit is blamed

 

[bluebell]

homegrown food a shortage of ? makes a complete mockery of the cries from above of producing more from our small , crowded and if them who know say population will grow by aleast 4 million extra mouths to feed, food banks ? food banks ?

 

[Hfd Cattle]

A huge number of the Polish have gone home !

 

[lazy farmer]

I have just heard on the radio about a huge amount of apples, raspberries and other fruit going to waste because of lack of pickers and brexit is blamed

Why wouldn’t it be blamed ?
Sterling has tanked making us less attractive as a destination
The country is more hostile to immigrants
And immigrant rights after a potential hard brexit were not guaranteed.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Guardian running a story that the public will be exposed to more pesticides after brexit as EU rules no longer apply!!!

 

[michael N123]

Guardian running a story that the public will be exposed to more pesticides after brexit as EU rules no longer apply!!!

could do with some old sprays back so I can grow turnips

 

[Wooly]

Nothing to do with the weather then or the fact it is not economic to pick !?!

Let's blame Brexit.


All the hundreds of acres of orchards in this area haven't been picked for years and fruit just falls and rots on the floor. That was while we were in the EU full time !!

 

[7610 super q]

Raspberries ? in October ??

 

[michael N123]

A huge number of the Polish have gone home !

The lazy English doley people are 10x worse than the polish it’s a shame you can’t deport them and keep the polish that want to work

 

[Campbell]

Raspberries ? in October ??

Yes, a neighbour once grew October fruiting razzies.

 

[kfpben]

Plenty of our grapes trying their best to rot at the moment...probably because it’s been raining for a month!

No shortage of pickers that we've noticed.

 

[TheTallGuy]

Fruit has been rotting around here for years & orchards torn up because there's not enough money in the game.

 

[roscoe erf]

in the top trumps of non news stories this ones right up there

 

[Kidds]

Probably the same with all tabloid articles, there is an element of truth in there somewhere but most of it is a load of made up rubbish written as sensational as possible.

There is definitely a shortage of pickers, there always has been and there is definitely a reduction of EU migrants to do the work.

 

[Kidds]

Raspberries ? in October ??

Autumn Bliss and Polka are two varieties I have grown at this time of year outdoors, couple that with Spanish tunnels and I would think you could grow quite a crp if you wanted to (subject to finding pickers of course)

 

[lazy farmer]

in the top trumps of non news stories this ones right up there

So thegrowers saying they were 17% short of staff in August were. Lying ?

 

[Clive]

homegrown food a shortage of ? makes a complete mockery of the cries from above of producing more from our small , crowded and if them who know say population will grow by aleast 4 million extra mouths to feed, food banks ? food banks ?

brexit hasn’t happened yet or did I miss something ?

No surprise it’s being blamed - it’s the default reason for anything bad these sats

 

[Tom_o_m]

Of course Brexit is the reason EU workers have left and of course it is going to cause disruption.

A lot of UK 'job seekers' are very selective about the type of work they do.

We will miss the hard work and professionalism of the EU labourers.

 

[lazy farmer]

brexit hasn’t happened yet or did I miss something ?

No surprise it’s being blamed - it’s the default reason for anything bad these sats

Wow and remainers are accused of being narrow minded. Look at the sats I love them they rarely lie. They show a drop off of seasonal labour since the referendum. Whether it’s sterling, uncertainty or racism I know not but the figures are there.

 

[PaulNix]

It's been a sh!t year for fruit all round this year, too wet and quality and amounts available to be picked so no one would want to pick it at piece rate when other work like Cauli/Cabbage planting or Potato work pays better.
There were labour shortages for this type of work two years before the referendum, what were they blaming then ?