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P&O Ferry services between Scotland and Northern Ireland are still suspended after the company sacked 800 UK staff and the National Sheep Association has expressed 'serious concern' over the impact it could have on the movement of breeding sheep. Most livestock moving between GB and Northern Ireland has until now used the P&O route from Cairnryan in Dumfries and Galloway, to Larne in County Antrim, where there is a Border Control Post to check the animals. There’s another ferry route from Cairnryan - run by the company Stena - but it goes into Belfast, where there’s no Border Control Post.

After months of disruption in the pig industry the Government says its preparing a consultation document about its future, following a ‘summit’ with farmers, retailers and processors. The consultation is due to come out this spring. As feed, fuel and building costs rise, the profitability of keeping your own herd of pigs has diminished, and the recent problems with the bottle-neck of stock on farms has made everything worse. Some have been pushed out of business - but others are finding new ways to stay in pigs. Anna Hill visits one farmer who has stopped breeding his own pigs after 50 years and switched to what he calls ‘bed and breakfast’ for pigs.

And at the St Fagans National Museum of History outside Cardiff they’re delivering lambs straight to people’s homes - courtesy of their lambcam.

Presented by Anna Hill
Produced for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons