The UK pig sector is standing on the edge of a precipice, the NPA has warned, as it highlights the precarious situation the pig sector finds itself in, as part of a wider ‘crisis point’ facing UK agriculture. Pig farmers across the UK are facing a prolonged market downturn, driven partly by oversupply and a challenging market and rock bottom prices across Europe, and an unprecedented number of contract terminations from processors. With the previous industry crisis still very fresh in the memory, producers have responded by cutting the size of their breeding herds or, in some cases, leaving the…