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Per pig, which means he is downsizing. weve reduced by about a third, the industry as a whole now is getting in for 20%, 25% of pig producers stopping producing pigs. quite often mainly independent producers, like myself. what that means is that there will be a shortage of pig meat coming quite quickly. agriculture is facing a lot of challenges. youve got high input prices like feed, fuel, fertiliser. limited ability to pass that on, labour shortages mean it is hard to process some of these prod...

So volatile, so stressful. i get up in the morning and sometimes i wonder why am i doing that? as this graph shows, farmers�* costs have risen even faster than food or general prices, which mean something�*s got to give — prices must rise or some farmers will go bust. livestock farmers are under the same pressures, plus last year thousands of pigs were destroyed thanks to a post—brexit shortage of butchers and abattoir workers. many are now cutting herd sizes. we sell about 3,500 pigs a ...

There is uncertainty in the markets ahead of the June 30th acreage report. Economists say they will be watching the report closely.

Dempsey at Large: fertilisers high on EU leaders’ radar 2022-06-22

Input prices rose in 10 of 11 subcategories in May.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack gives us an update on his meeting with the United Nations.

Said about that. l lets play it. should the tariffs be lifted? >> many of them should be. we should focus on whats important, not raising input prices for american producers so theyre less competitive, which is what much of those tariffs do. >> can you explain why keeping all those tariffs in place on chinese goods is best for the 12 million plus workers you represent, given, again, that china is not living up to its end of the bargain anyway? >> well, the tariffs are actually one tool in a whol...

Important, not raising input prices for american producers so theyre less competitive, which is what much of those tariffs do. instead, we should be focusing on things that allow the leakage of key technologies to china, and the like. we should pass at long last some kind of legislation. ideally, on a bipartisan basis that would raise the vastly excessive trump tax cuts, join the world in taxing corporations adequately, take down prescription drug prices. all of that would operate to reduce infl...

The Georgia Farm Monitor talks with a climatologist to see if there is any relief in sight for farmers enduring the effects of dry weather.

Commissions lump sum short changing farmers - IFA 2022-06-01