Labour Shortages Costing UK Farmers Tens of Millions as Crops Rot in Fields

Flower pickers from Romania harvest daffodils to be transported to the cold store on Taylors Bulbs farm near Holbeach, eastern England, on March 15, 2022. Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images

British farmers have lost tens of millions of pounds this year as a result of severe labour shortages, a survey has revealed.

The survey, conducted by the National Farmers Union (NFU), found that 4 in 10 growers had suffered crop losses thanks to a lack of pickers.