100,000 pigs to be destroyed

Humble Village Farmer

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Home Office : agree to a temporary Covid relief visa waiver to bring in cutting plant workers

DEFRA: agree to AHDB being able to give levy payers back some of their money to support initiatives to assist welfare on farms with rollover and also prepare euthanasia programmes
Some hope of the latter
 

Hilly

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I was talking to someone who has just gone into b and b pigs and he was saying how the pig job is on it's arse. I asked how it affected him and he was almost laughing about it not being his problem because he's in a contract. Surely it is his problem if the pigs are losing money and the firm concerned can't pay the bills?
The owners of them pigs are sitting on massive cash reserves they won’t be going out of pigs for a long time, the job will turn around and they top up the reserves .
 

Humble Village Farmer

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This is all to do with the retail sector cutting continually to improve their share of the retail market. The chickens are finally coming home to roost, or pigs in this case who can't get away from home in the first place.

I suppose it was inevitable really. Maybe the end of stupidly cheap food produced by people on low incomes.

Edit:... for rich people to throw a third of it away
 
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This is all to do with the retail sector cutting continually to improve their share of the retail market. The chickens are finally coming home to roost, or pigs in this case who can't get away from home in the first place.

I suppose it was inevitable really. Maybe the end of stupidly cheap food produced by people on low incomes.
Not delaying “B” when other countries were already taking steps to mitigate the worst of the spread of the pandemic was also the height of folly…
 

Bill the Bass

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Brexit : workers left. Not coming back

UK rollover of 100,000 plus pigs all costing more to feed, going overweight and out of spec and holding accommodation for pigs coming through from farrowing system

China takes 5th quarter and current export ban on these

Brexit means we cannot export whole carcases

Likely all freezers already full

Cull sow price through the floor

Government sitting on it's hands

Already 27,500 + sows being taken out
Bloody awful for pig stockmen/women. I remember in 2001 with FMD restrictions having to house 11 weeks worth of pigs, it nearly crippled us financially and the over sized baconers just about wrecked the place. Luckily we got culled due to FMD in the 12th week.

Successive Governments couldn’t care less about the pig sector, never has never will. I can tell you honestly very few working on the ‘Future Farming and Countryside’ crap in defra will even know about this, let alone care or have the wherewithal to do anything.
 

fudge

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Bloody awful for pig stockmen/women. I remember in 2001 with FMD restrictions having to house 11 weeks worth of pigs, it nearly crippled us financially and the over sized baconers just about wrecked the place. Luckily we got culled due to FMD in the 12th week.

Successive Governments couldn’t care less about the pig sector, never has never will. I can tell you honestly very few working on the ‘Future Farming and Countryside’ crap in defra will even know about this, let alone care or have the wherewithal to do anything.
This I am afraid will reinforce the view in government that food production is best done out of sight and out of mind in somewhere like South America.
 

puppet

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We should be getting the illegal immigrants to work until papers are sorted, even if it involves tagging them. Most are economic migrants and if you can get from Somalia across the Channel then you are a very driven, determined worker, just as we see with those who were prepared to leave Eastern Europe
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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