Good News in the pig trade

JP1

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This was raised as part of the food security questions by EFRA Select Committee Chair Sir Robert Goodwill with Johnson yesterday as part of the serious business of the PM facing the Parliamentary Liaison Select Committee

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Johnson has form on this but just a shame he couldn’t be held to face the music on this for our hard pressed UK pig producers

This is what you get with the irksome likes of Eustice and Johnson and their "free market" / anti support agenda
 
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maen

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This was raised as part of the food security questions by EFRA Select Committee Chair Sir Robert Goodwill with Johnson yesterday as part of the serious business of the PM facing the Parliamentary Liaison Select Committee

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Johnson has form on this but just a shame he couldn’t be held to face the music on this for our hard pressed UK pig producers

This is what you get with the irksome likes of Eustice and Johnson and their "free market" / anti support agenda
The issue of labour shortage is now across many if not most industries. Some of us are beginning to question the wisdom of restricting our ability to function as a Country because of political dogma. We have many jobs that require labour in agriculture, hospitality, care industry, meat industries, NHS, and many more. It’s a long list. We also have a large number of people that are retired and whose retirement is partly dependant on an economy that is vibrant and working efficiently.
 

maen

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I am not sure the NPA is not part of the problem rather than the solution. Most of their work seems to be based around increase production rather than better long term contracts, or visions the Danish cooperative system. A bit of a Judas sheep.
 

German

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Well, big sausages anyway - mostly in Germany where they have too many pigs still and African Swine fever has just jumped right across the country somehow to nearly France and we still import all their pigmeat without inspection whereas my sows would have to be accompanied by endless paper trails and inspections.

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Germany does not have to many pigs!
The statistics are flawed because they dont represent the amount of pig halves that get imported to be cut into pieces by cheap rented labour from the Netherlands and Denmark.
They show up as the finished meat in the statistics, however.

And what you get in the UK aren't sausages it's pork belly because you love Bacon so much.
The price for them in Germany is pretty low right now because 50% of the Breeders gave up in the last 5 Years and are selling their sows.
 

Hilly

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Germany does not have to many pigs!
The statistics are flawed because they dont represent the amount of pig halves that get imported to be cut into pieces by cheap rented labour from the Netherlands and Denmark.
They show up as the finished meat in the statistics, however.

And what you get in the UK aren't sausages it's pork belly because you love Bacon so much.
The price for them in Germany is pretty low right now because 50% of the Breeders gave up in the last 5 Years and are selling their sows.
Which would make me think at some point it will start and get expensive.
 

German

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Which would make me think at some point it will start and get expensive.
It will but at the moment the demand is also pretty low because of inflation, people stop buying meat to save some Money.
Despite popular belief, Germany may be a rich country but the Germans aren't rich
 

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Barleymow

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Not sure if it's true but told xxxxxxxxx offering bqp producers more money .would be nice if they actually took the pigs contracted to them instead
 

Batty

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Not sure if it's true but told xxxxxxxxx offering bqp producers more money .would be nice if they actually took the pigs contracted to them instead
Ah that would be the difference between pigs they own and pigs they buy off third party producers! That sums up a lot of the problems in the industry.
 

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