“We’re having to produce to higher welfare standards but still face non-competitive products coming in,” Blythe said.
Adam Searle, owner of haulage firm CP Transport based near Ipswich, said the disruption was “frustrating” and he was “still working through what the damage actually is”.
Farmers also said that plans to tax inherited farmland had been a stress on finances.
The government said it would start imposing a 20% tax on inherited agricultural assets worth more than £1m from April 2026, ending the 100% tax relief that had been in place since the 1980s.
But after months of protests by farmers, the government increased the threshold from £1m to £2.5m.
Blyth said: “It doesn’t make any sense for a business to have to sell off chunks of its business every generation that it gets passed along.”