{"id":71522,"date":"2026-08-03T18:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/71522\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T18:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:49:10","slug":"the-new-visa-rule-that-puts-uk-sheep-shearing-in-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/71522\/","title":{"rendered":"The new visa rule that puts UK sheep shearing in danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"The new visa rule that puts UK sheep shearing in danger\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6PJb_h-M98w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe new visa rule that puts UK sheep shearing in danger<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBritish farmers are lobbying the government to reverse its decision to end a special visa programme for foreign sheep shearers. <\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>They say closing down the scheme, which allows about 75 Australians and New Zealanders to work in the UK every summer, would be another blow to farming and could affect the animals\u2019 welfare. <\/p>\n<p>The government says it\u2019s given the industry sufficient time to adjust and that thousands of people have been trained in sheep shearing in recent years. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nGet more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/<br \/>\nSubscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<br \/>\nFollow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new visa rule that puts UK sheep shearing in danger British farmers are lobbying the government to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[3580,59280,366,352,365,2163,1211,2324,59277,9757,59278,59276,59279,13548,341,4785,22124],"class_list":["post-71522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-channel-4-news","tag-agriculture","tag-britain-sheep","tag-channel-4","tag-channel-4-news","tag-channel4","tag-farmers","tag-farming","tag-immigration","tag-shearing","tag-sheep","tag-sheep-industry","tag-sheep-shearing","tag-sheep-uk","tag-uk-immigration","tag-uk-news","tag-visa","tag-wool"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117033291407443437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}