The on-farm pig cull has reached an estimated 35,000 head, and the backlog awaiting slaughter is said to have grown to 150,000 pigs. Government support measures have had little effect so far, said the National Pig Association (NPA), after an interview with Defra secretary George Eustice in which he told the Politics Home website that […]
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