Australia’s pork industry faces being reduced to the level of a cottage industry after three reports recommending action to save the industry have been ignored by the Federal Government.The Australian pig industry has about 2,300 active producers, employing 6,000 full-time “on farm” workers, another 6,700 “off farm”, and indirectly a further 16,800.The industry has about 330,000 producing sows. Pig farm investment is worth about $1 billion, and annual farm-gate production is about $1 billion.Far…
