According to a report in the Sun, millions of UK sheep will have to be slaughtered if the UK leaves the European Union without a deal.
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According to the Sun, the President of the National Farmers Union (NFU), Minette Batters, has said that:
"We have 15 million breeding ewes in the UK.
"For many years now, we've been exporting 40% of that to France.
"In a no deal situation, you cannot get over that tariff wall. You will have to look at slaughtering quite a large percentage of the national sheep stock."
Being me I went and checked out the UK sheep and lamb import and export figures from AHDB Beef & Lamb. And, as ever, there's a link to the report in the descriptions box below.
The latest figures I found were for 2018 and published on March the 7th 2019.
The figures were broken down for the different cuts in fresh, chilled and frozen meats from sheep and lambs and when you tot them all up you get that in 2018 the UK imported 90,320 tonnes carcass weight equivalent and exported 86,207 tonnes CWE.
That's a slight deficit where we import 4,113 tonnes CWE more than we export, which is just under 5% more that we export.
So pretty much balanced one would think. So why not eat our own meat and export/import less?
But the differences start when looking at whether the meat is fresh or frozen and the different types of cuts.
The data shows that we are a net importer of all frozen cuts of sheep and lamb as well as fresh sheep legs and boneless cuts of sheep.
And we are a net exporter of all the other fresh cuts...
