date:Jun 19, 2014
The Scottish Red Meat Industry Profile draws together a wide range of the latest information on the Scottish red meat sector and encompasses the whole production chain from producer to final consumer.
It showed that revenues were down around 5.5% on 2012, with contractions in the processing sector as well as in primary production.
Pig producers saw a slight increase in sow numbers, but the Scottish suckler herd decreased in size for a third year, with 428,500 head or 0.7% less than in 2012, wh