Table 5: Total UK Production, Trade and Supply of Carcass Meat
Data in Thousand Tonnes Dressed Carcass Weight
1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2016
Source: DEFRA Table 5 illustrates with perfect clarity the dilemma that Mr Gove
and his colleagues at the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs must face as they continue their discussions over the direction of agricultural policy in the UK following Brexit. In recent years, the UK has become more and more dependent
on supplies of imported meat as demand has outstripped the apparent ability of UK producers to supply the requisite volumes to consumers and the meat processing sector. There would appear to be two options facing the industry. The first is to source UK meat supplies and, indeed, all food
resources from wherever they can be procured most cheaply. It is likely that this would result in a substantial diminution of domestic meat production, although this option must be viewed subject to the fact that there is very little support from the Common Agricultural Policy for pig and poultry production, as producers in these sectors are viewed as ‘industrial’
enterprises and thus not appropriate to receive this sort of support. More support is available under the CAP for beef producers but the negative effect of adopting what might be described as a ‘free market’ approach to agricultural support in the UK might be less than expected. The alternative approach would be to develop an agricultural
support regime whereby the role of agriculture in supporting the economic and environmental integrity of the countryside would be recognised and measures put in place to support farmers either directly or indirectly. In this context, it will not have escaped readers’ attention that the economic integrity of the countryside includes the activities of those who supply requisite resources to farmers – including the livestock feed sector. The trade will readily recognise that its future is closely bound up with the evolution of UK agricultural policy in the years following Brexit and needs to make its case with all the vigour it can command.
UK Production
3,273.8 3,501.6 3,831.6 3,515.3 3,340.9 3,466.1 3,783.1 3,895.0
805.1 888.6
1,057.7 1,289.8 1,746.0 1,720.3 1,738.1 1,827.0
Imported Exported Carcass Meat
315.7 323.2 779.5 495.7 470.5 656.9 717.8 755.4
44.6 68.4 96.6 29.4 12.5 10.8 10.1 11.5
Exported Live
Total New Supply
3,718.6 3,998.6 4,013.2 4,280.0 4,604.0 4,518.7 4,793.3 4,955.1
UK Production as Percentage of Supply
88.0 87.6 95.5 82.1 72.6 76.7 78.9 78.6
Trade Balance
-444.8 -497.0 -181.6 -764.8
-1,263.0 -1,052.6 -1,010.2 -1,060.1
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