{"id":487881,"date":"2026-03-21T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487881\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:08:08","slug":"northern-farmers-say-ban-on-migrant-shearers-will-harm-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487881\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern farmers say ban on migrant shearers will harm sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katherine Singer, who farms with husband Chris in Upper Coquetdale in Northumberland and used a team from New Zealand for many years, has described the decision as &#8220;a kick in the teeth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A lot of our shearers learn from the Kiwi team and go out there, so it&#8217;s very unfair if we can travel there but they can&#8217;t come here any more,&#8221; she said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charles Hedley, who has 1,200 acres near Bishop Auckland in County Durham and uses a team which includes a shearer from Chile, characterises the government&#8217;s decision as &#8220;a bit wierd&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s such a short weather window for shearing, we just can&#8217;t get the job done without international shearers,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand why they can&#8217;t see that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katherine Singer, who farms with husband Chris in Upper Coquetdale in Northumberland and used a team from New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-487881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}