A combination of COVID-19 and Brexit has led to fewer workers available to pick, process and transport food. For some farmers it has led to heartbreaking dilemmas. Tamasin Ford speaks to two pig farmers who face having to kill thousands of healthy pigs, and a salad farmer who has seen millions of lettuce heads rot in his fields.

(Picture: farmer in field, Credit: Getty/BBC)

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Contributors:

Vicky Morgan, pig farmer, Pockthorpe Hall Farm, East Yorkshire, UK

Kate Morgan, pig farmer, Pockthorpe Hall Farm, East Yorkshire, UK

Nick Ottewell, Farming and Commercial Director at LJ Betts Ltd, Kent, England