DEAL
Sheep farmers will have most reason to celebrate a deal being struck because without one many face ruin.
The UK exports about 30 per cent of its lamb, and 95 per cent of that goes to the European Union. Without a deal, an average tariff of 48 per cent would be imposed on sheep meat.
Many farmers, even sheep farmers, voted for Brexit because they wanted to be liberated from the Common Agricultural Policy’s red tape. Arable farmers particularly resented inflexible regulations, such as being required to grow at least three different crops if they farmed more than 30 hectares.
Brexit: Saving my sheep farm
But the EU is by far the most important overseas market for Britain’s farming industry. It purchases more than 60 per cent of British
