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Comment: ‘Keep your pecker up’ – UK pig sector will weather the storm

May 7, 2026

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Comment: ‘Keep your pecker up’ – UK pig sector will weather the storm

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Comment: ‘Keep your pecker up’ – UK pig sector will weather the storm

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Comment: ‘Keep your pecker up’ – UK pig sector will weather the storm

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By Fred Allen on May 7, 2026 Comment

Well, it was fun while it lasted. After several strong years, the pig sector now feels firmly back on the back foot. The sun may finally be shining, but positives are becoming harder to come by – particularly with the ongoing threats of activism and disease seemingly intensifying. Still, as my nan used to say, ‘you’ve just got to keep your pecker up, it’ll all come right in the end’. We work in a boom-or-bust industry, and navigating the highs and lows comes with the territory. It keeps things unpredictable – and, in its own way, that is part of…

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