British pork producers urge Defra to act as industry faces collapse.

Meanwhile, challenging market conditions, exacerbated by the costs associated with the backlog, record pig feed costs and falling pig prices, mean farmers have now been losing approximately £25 per pig for nearly a year. Britain's National Pig Association and NFU, the voice of British farming, have called on the United Kingdom's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary George Eustice to call an emergency summit with the supply chain to find solutions to the ongoing and escalating crisis in the pig sector. In a joint letter to Eustice, NPA chairman Rob Mutimer and NFU President Minette Batters said the situation was "deteriorating" for pig producers and was "clearly not sustainable". [Extracted from the article]