‘Shortages? There’s none here’: Spanish farmers blame Brexit for UK rationing

Spain’s biggest farming group says new import rules and borders controls more at fault than the weather for shortages

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The head of Spain’s largest farming association has pointed to Brexit and its impact on transportation, bureaucracy and border controls as the underlying cause of the UK salad crisis, saying there has been no major drop in production among his members.

Alfonso Gálvez – who serves as general secretary of Asaja, which represents farmers in the Murcia region, said he was puzzled by media reports of weather-induced shortages.