date:Aug 17, 2012
a further 12 months.
Respondents supplied 46,080 slaughter pigs a week, covering about 30% of Great Britains weekly output of pigs.
The NPA said:The British pig industry is in a race against time. It needs to persuade all actors in the supply chain, between now and the end of the year at the latest, to work together to achieve a producer price that reflects the recent rise in feed commodity prices.
BPEX predicted that up to 10% of European pig farmers will stop production when new EU welfare