£200,000 worth of new funding is to go towards a campaign promoting Scotch Lamb with Quality Meat Scotland. The money is to come from the Scottish Government at a time when Scotland’s protected named status for many products is under threat as we leave the EU on March 29th 2019.
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/08/07/scottish-government-support-promoting-scotch-lamb/

"A hard Brexit was, a year ago, unthinkable. Today it’s the frontrunner in a one-horse race. These are the worst of times.
“We will look at this issue in the round and make sure there’s adequate food supplies. It would be wrong to describe it as the government doing the stockpiling” (Dominic Raab).
These words should chill us to the very bone, given that they were uttered by a Brexit secretary who believes that foodbank users are not hungry but simply suffering a cashflow problem. Adequate food? Five hundred thousand weans rely on foodbanks while living in the world’s sixth largest economy. Forgive me for questioning the UK government’s competency- or desire – to feed its people after March 30th, 2019, when they can’t – won’t – do it today."
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/08/01/farming-mattersthe-age-of-unreason/

“The EU Protected Food Name scheme has safeguarded high quality Scottish products such as Orkney’s delicious Island Cheddar cheese and the county’s beef and lamb from cheap knock-offs. It is alarming that the EU’s chief negotiator says that the Westminster government has yet to reach an agreement with the EU to maintain the scheme. The danger is that the Tories are prepared to take this protection away and undercut our first class, wholesome produce in order to strike a quick trade deal with Donald Trump, whose priority is America First."
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/08/03/tories-preparing-to-sell-out-orkney-protected-named-status-maree-todd/

The National Farmers’ Union said a ‘no deal’ Brexit would lead to an “Armageddon scenario” for the British agricultural industry. NFU president Minette Batters warned that “crashing out of the EU” with no trade deals in place must be avoided, and previously said Brexit could well leave the farming sector on the “brink of collapse”.
https://inews.co.uk/news/armageddon-scenario-no-deal-brexit/