Defra farm minister Victoria Prentis has ordered a review of fairness in the supply chain after a summit on the worsening pig industry crisis.The Defra minister chaired a summit in London on Thursday 10 February which included retailers, farming bodies, the main pork processors and the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA).A backlog of an estimated 200,000 pigs has built up on UK farms since last summer due to post-Brexit and Covid labour shortages. And with fattening pigs on farms for longer, processors have applied swingeing discounts of 50% to overweight animals. Some producers have received as little as 70p/kg deadweight for pigs, while daily feed, bedding and other housing costs have soared.
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