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Soft fruit growers told about Brexit impact and opportunities

Soft fruit growers told about Brexit impact and opportunities

Jonnie Hall (NFUS) speaks at SSCR Soft Fruit Winter Meeting 2019
“Brexit will have a very profound impact on Scottish agriculture, in terms of trade, labour supply and future support policy. However, change is required anyway, and Brexit should be the catalyst for change, not the reason for it”
Jonnie Hall (NFUS) speaks at SSCR Soft Fruit Winter Meeting 2019

While Brexit can be viewed as a very real threat to the future of Scottish agriculture, it must also now be viewed as an opportunity, albeit not an easy one to grasp. That was one of the main messages of the Soft Fruit Winter Meeting of the Scottish Society for Crop Research (SSCR), held at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee.

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This article was originally posted by The James Hutton Institute