At least 600 healthy pigs have already been culled due to a nationwide labour shortage in abattoirs, the chief executive of the National Pig Association (NPA) has said. Zoe Davies warned that while ...

Danish Crown is to shut an abattoir in Denmark due to a declining supply of pigs for slaughter. Based in Sæby in the Nordjylland region of Denmark, the slaughterhouse’s 800 employees will lose their ...

Britain’s farmers are struggling to manage a surplus of swine despite warnings that pigs in blankets may be missing from Christmas lunches this year. An “exodus of eastern European workers” has led to ...

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Meat group Danish Crown has pared its plans for potential job job cuts at two local slaughterhouses. Last month, Danish Crown flagged 350 redundancies at abattoirs in Sæby and Ringsted because of ...

THE TROUBLED Brechin abattoir is ready to deliver some seasonal cheer to pig producers, re-opening its doors following a major fire this summer. As the central pig processing plant for Scotland, its ...

British farmers have endured “mad cow” disease, swine fever and widespread winter floods. Now comes the Fourth Horseman of this agricultural Apocalypse: foot-and-mouth disease. With the added woes of ...