09 Jul 2019 --- President of the National Farmers' Union (NFU), Minette Batters, has said that a no-deal Brexit would be “socially and economically disastrous” for the UK’s agricultural industry, particularly for the sheep meat sector which faces the prospect of mass slaughtering due to oversupply. The UK, she said, is unable to eat the amount of lamb it produces and depends on trade relations with France, which buys 40 percent of the nation’s sheep meat, to sell the produce. She insisted that new tariffs could see many producers unable to export their produce, with sheep farmers among those who would be worst hit.