Reckoning looms for meat industry

Reckoning looms for meat industry

Reading Time: 2 minutes Another day of reckoning is looming for the meat industry. Sheep and beef farmers are – thankfully – enjoying a prosperous year, but other planets are aligning over the sector, and not in a good way. It is a position the sector has been multiple times before, despite the past decade being relatively calm (last year’s closure of Smithfield aside). Multiple factors signal that this calm is about to end. Two consecutive annu…