Making long-term plans is tough, especially when trying to deal with shortterm problems of the magnitude now faced by pig producers. “The past eight months or so have been the most emotionally and financially stressful we’ve ever had,” says Vicky Morgan, whose family business, based near Driffield, East Yorkshire, has 1,700 breeding sows on a high-welfare indoors system.A lack of butchers in the processing sector due to the Covid pandemic and Brexit-related labour short-ages, together with the hike in feed costs and glut of pigmeat on the market, has seen returns slashed. "The pig industry is notorious for having good times and bad times, based on supply and demand- but this is unprecedented,” . M says Vicky.
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