'I have sleepless nights about how to feed my pigs' Farmer Harriet Ross says costs and overheads are getting out of control
Harriet Ross admits to having days where she's sick of farming. Pig sick.
Harriet points to a range of factors including Brexit, coronavirus and the war in Ukraine which have created difficulties which are pushing her business to the brink.Young piglets have to be kept in temperature-controlled rooms all year round so rising electricity prices are having a crippling effect on the business.
But a shortage of migrant workers at the abattoir created a backlog in processing the pigs, meaning they had to keep them on farm for longer.The next harvest is late July or early August and until then they're seeing bills stacking up.The last few months have brought sleepless nights as they try to buy cereals for the pigs to eat.With just a week's worth of food left, she estimates making about 50 phone calls before she could find any more.
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