date:Aug 17, 2012
Jon Bullock, communications manager with the British Pig Executive (BPEX), told FoodManufacture.co.ukThere will definitely be a significant increase in prices for food manufacturers as UK pig producers struggle to cope with by much higher UK feed prices.
That will be magnified when the sow stall and tether ban comes into force on January 1 2013 if[continental]producers are driven out of business.
Pig farmers have faced a 25% increase in the cost of pig feed over the summer as the US drought ha