Labour issues and broiler health top priorities

Poultry farmers have been urged to write to their members of parliament demanding that the UK government introduces a 12-month Covid-19 Recovery Visa to help mitigate the current labour shortage. Besides labour, broiler health was a key issue at the UK’s virtual Poultry Meat Conference. Aimee Mahony, NFU poultry adviser, said the UK poultry sector was facing a labour shortage crisis right across the supply chain, adding that the British Poultry Council believed the present vacancy rate was