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LONDON — Britain’s pig farmers on Friday warned of a pork crisis unless the government urgently eased an acute shortage of abattoir workers and butchers that…
A "potentially disastrous" backlog of pigs is building up on East Anglian farms due to post-Brexit labour shortages at meat factories, said industry leaders.
Published: 4:42 PM April 8, 2021 The National Pig Association is calling for £3.2m of compensation for farmers who lost money due to Covid-19 processing delays. - Credit: James Bass The pig industry has called for a £3.2m government compensation package for farmers whose animals grew too fat when Covid-19 hit processing factories. Earlier this year, there was an estimated backlog of more than 100,000 pigs on farms across the country, after a wave of coronavirus outbreaks at meat factories caused processing delays, coupled with export problems. Although the crisis has since ea...
A "perfect storm" of Brexit and Covid-19 have left pig farmers facing their biggest crisis in decades - with thousands of animals stranded on farms.
Why these three little piggies AREN'T going to market: EU intransigence, arrogant pen-pushers and endless red tape have hammered Britain's pork exports, with 100,000 pigs in limbo There is now a vast back-log of more than 100,000 unsold pigs now languishing in limbo on farms across Britain due to Brexit bureaucracy, according to farmers Each consignment of pork shipped out of the UK requires 72 pages of paperwork Before Brexit, they required two documents which took just minutes to complete New poll by National Pig Association reveals 15% of members are considering selling because they are s...