Today the Government has advised all business to prepare
for a no deal Brexit; so much for "keep calm and carry
on". But what about farmers?
Many other businesses can make changes to their business and see
the results of those changes within as little as a week. Farmers
take production decisions as much as 18 months to 2 years in
advance. Certainly the first post-Brexit harvest is growing right
now and lamb, pork, and beef production has been planned out with
progeny being already fattened for post Brexit slaughter. In a
factory, if things go really wrong, the business can just switch it
all off for a while just as the car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover
has done. Farms, however, just cannot do that. Animals and crops
need husbanding and, contrary to possibly popular misconception,
the British countryside does not just look after itself.
