Cows that you are inseminating now will be finishing the resulting lactation after Brexit actually happens (March 2019). Their milk will possibly be made into a dairy product that could be sold overseas, and so outside the EU single market, and the Customs Union.  How much tariff or how big a legal barrier will be erected by the importer, to defend their home-grown dairy industry?  Alternatively, how big a barrier will be erected because of some totally unrelated issue, as a “tit-for-tat” penalty for some other perceived international misdemeanour?  We don’t know the answers, and it is very worrying.

For more information please contact your local FCG office or Charles Holt at charlesholt@fcgagric.com