An award-winning pig producer is culling his entire 140-sow herd due to low prices, rising costs and an acute labour shortage. Other farmers have warned that they will take similar action – with as many as 120,000 pigs slaughtered due to the crisis affecting the industry. Suffolk farmer Peter Mortimer, of Fir Tree Farm, Metfield, […]
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