Concerns are rising for the UK pig sector following the month-long temporary closure of a major German meat site after it experienced a coronavirus outbreak.
The meat factory in the city of Tunnies, North Rhine-Westphalia, processes 140,000 pigs a week, five constants with the penny of all pigs slaughtered in Germany.
They had scorned the load of pigs from some countries because efforts to divert pigs to other processing plants in the country proved difficult.
It has been suggested that there is now a surplus of 100,000 finishers in the country.
The weekly sacrifice reached the penultimate week of June of 785,000 pigs, 90,000 less than the week before the plant closed in Germany.
According to the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU), British pig brands that regularly send slaughter bristles to the plant to cut see backs on farms.
Two weeks of refurbishment were bristling on the farms, with the chains of origin slowly hunting to export pigs back to the country, the union added.
Prices fall mainly from the initial charge before this era of uncertainty, now in the order of 20 p/kg, makes 55-56 p/kg.
The UFU said: “Aleven, although it hoped that this challenge could be short-lived, the unknown is the spread of Covid-1nine among the meat processing plants in the Germabig apple and the reaction to the conditions of workers in the country.”
The incident sparked a debate between trade unions and politicians about workers’ conditions, not only in the factory, but also in Germany.
Several plants have announced basic change operations.
The union added: “Angelos Angeles Merkel has said that meat production will have to change, we still have no idea how this will have an effect on the UK market position and what this indicates for the multitude of British pigs being processed on the counterattack.”
The UFU said it will monitor the effects in northern Europe due to the scenario in Germany, in addition to control by local producers.
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