United Kingdom: A pig industry on the edge

Foot-and-Mouth Disease, stricter welfare regulations than its neighbours and on top that there is Brexit. It’s fair to say that the British pig industry has had a number of hard blows to deal with over the last few decades. Although challenges remain, the industry is in better shape to face the future. Pig production in the United Kingdom has a proud history, but the statistics suggest that the sector has contracted significantly in the last 2 decades and it now provides only about half of th