Kite Consulting Milk Market Update & Bitesize Brexit Looming Labour Issues
Hosts Ben Eagle & Will Evans are joined by Chris Walkland for his usual milk market update, along with dairy farmer Henry Lewis and Kite consultant Rachael Madeley-Davies who discuss the looming labour issues in relation to the impending EU-Exit. Most farms, even those employing minimal numbers of local staff, struggle to meet their current labour requirements and with confirmation last week that, from an Immigration Policy perspective farm workers are considered neither skilled nor in short supply, this issue will only be exacerbated further once we leave the EU on 31st December. Rachael and Henry discuss what this might mean practically for dairy farm labour supply and what a future dairy farm labour and recruitment might look like.