NFU Scotland is carrying out a pork shelf watch over the next week (27 November to 5 December) to gain a clear snapshot of which supermarkets are strongly supporting our pig farmers at this extremely challenging time for the industry.

All pig farmers are experiencing particularly difficult times just now. There is a perfect storm of problems affecting throughput in the processing sector, low staffing levels throughout the whole chain, high input costs on farms, poor prices globally and a lack of equivalent controls and checks on EU product coming into the market.

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