As we head into a new year and a new decade, the reality that we operate in a truly global marketplace has neverbeen more stark.Domestic demand, preventing and controlling disease, on-farm efficiency, feed and other costs, industry productivity and supply chain structure and relations all continue to play a big part. But in 2019, more than ever before, there was no escaping the influence of global and political factors on the bottom line of pig businesses.Brexit was, in the end, the big story that never happened - but it will in 2020, initially in the form of a transition period, but with the harsh reality of a no deal exit potentially looming as the year goes on (see pages 14, 15 and 20).
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