100,000 pigs to be destroyed

[unlacedgecko]

it's been replaced with eu pork.....whilst the real culprits...the supermarkets...default on contracts

This inequality of arms is the issue.

 

[yellowbelly]

The above poem by Martin Niemoller sums up the job to me and why all of agriculture needs to stick together.

Couldn't agree more. If only we had a union or something we should join.

In 1901 a group of farmers met in Lincolnshire and a chap called E.H.Howard addressed them..........

Howard told his audience that, with economic conditions continuing to be adverse, especially for arable farmers, it was time for them to combine and defend their interests. ‘We have a perfect right’, he said, ‘to demand with the rest of the nation’s subjects a living wage. We must co-operate into a united body called the British Farmers’ Union …’.1 The new union’s role would be to influence the political world. Thus the purpose of the NFU was clearly defined. The NFU was to be a political campaigning organization from the outset, a creature of the modern world of the twentieth century, in which governments were coming to develop policies covering almost all aspects of life. The Union stated that ‘its principal object is so to influence legislation and the administration of the laws, both national and local, as to protect the farmer against exploitation and to promote the prosperity of his industry’.

In 1904 they started the Lincolnshire Farmers Union. In about 1908 they 'gave it to the country' and it became the NFU. Sadly somewhere, between then and now, the NFU seems to have lost it's way.

 

[unlacedgecko]

For me but maybe not for some, Brexit was never about keeping people out or sending them home.
It was purely about regaining the independence to manage our own country as best we saw fit rather than accepting one size fits all diktats from Brussels.
From what I’ve seen so far things don’t look to be going very well with there now being a kind of management vacuum where the EU once sorted things out for us. Is this because populist political opportunists jumped on the Brexit bandwagon pushing those who had done the heavy lifting aside? I rather think so, and the new opportunities and fresh start are being squandered by a bunch of vacuous champagne ecologist populists.

I voted for Brexit partially to reduce and control immigration. It worked. Employers can no longer use immigrants to suppress wages and my truck driving rates have increased substantially.

 

[Hilly]

it's been replaced with eu pork.....whilst the real culprits...the supermarkets...default on contracts

Yes , we are getting sold a sh!t load of bloody lies .

 

[spin cycle]

gb pig slaughter numbers up 21k from two weeks ago..... for the week 02/10/21 at 194,686......less than 10 occasions since 2006 has that weekly number been exceeded......two of them are this year weeks ending 27/3/21 and 20/2/21

 

[Hilly]

So Labour shortage is lies.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

What is the problem then?!!

 

[spin cycle]

So Labour shortage is lies.

make your own mind up....i've just trailed thru 800 weeks of ahbd data.....i'm about to do it again to check

edit
wk ending

12/12/15.... 207,119
20/12/14.....203,166
13/12/20.....201,575
20/2/21.......201,110.....this year
19/12/20.....199,903
27/3/21.......198,897.....this year
12/12/20....197,103
5/12/15......196,444
19/12/20....195,455
2/10/21.......194,686.....this year

top ten highest slaughter number weeks.....in the last 800

 

[unlacedgecko]

make your own mind up....i've just trailed thru 800 weeks of ahbd data.....i'm about to do it again to check

Processors playing games to ensure they can get cheap labour?

 

[spin cycle]

Processors playing games to ensure they can get cheap labour?

or cheap pork

 

[JP1]

gb pig slaughter numbers up 21k from two weeks ago..... for the week 02/10/21 at 194,686......less than 10 occasions since 2006 has that weekly number been exceeded......two of them are this year weeks ending 27/3/21 and 20/2/21

Share link with data?

 

[midlandslad]

Exceptionally difficult times and little anyone can do.

Do people think this is a short term glitch or likely to stay? Will the reduction in breeding herd be enough?

 

[Forkdriver]

Haven't 10k odd Afghanistan's just crossed over the Chanel?. Couldn't they be given jobs since their probably costing the tax payer something to feed an bed, until their given visa's.

I think that they wouldn't be too keen on handling pigs, as it isn't clean in their religion, or have I missed the irony smiley.

 

[Mouser]

It very much looks like a storm in a teacup to make government and brexit look like a disaster. Admittedly the government are pretty good at that themselves and some farmers are getting thrown under the bus, but much like hgvs driver shortage and fuel shortage there seems to be not a huge problem?

 

[spin cycle]

Share link with data?

i'm not tech savy enough to do that jp.....but if you google 'gb estimated pig slaughterings ahdb' it'll take you right to it

now i know it says 'estimated' but it's the ahdb and the only data i could find.....also note that 'gb' doesn't include northern ireland.....during my searches i've often found 'uk' numbers which are higher because of it

 

[JP1]

i'm not tech savy enough to do that jp.....but if you google 'gb estimated pig slaughterings ahdb' it'll take you right to it

now i know it says 'estimated' but it's the ahdb and the only data i could find.....also note that 'gb' doesn't include northern ireland.....during my searches i've often found 'uk' numbers which are higher because of it

I have someone serious who's going to look at it in depth but I need something data wise that I can take back to him

 

[Suffolk Serf]

It very much looks like a storm in a teacup to make government and brexit look like a disaster. Admittedly the government are pretty good at that themselves and some farmers are getting thrown under the bus, but much like hgvs driver shortage and fuel shortage there seems to be not a huge problem?

Come here and say that!!!

 

[Daniel]

The feed mills are adding insult to injury.

 

[gone up the hill]

The feed mills are adding insult to injury.View attachment 989973

Cancel your feed order with them.

If everyone does that they will have to re-think!

 

[spin cycle]

I have someone serious who's going to look at it in depth but I need something data wise that I can take back to him

you can find government data but it doesn't go back far enough to create a picture of pre/post brexit particularly given 2020 was messed up with leaving the eu and brexit

given that the ahdb data is the only option