Can vets really influence beef producer prosperity?

27 Apr 2016 | Alex Walters

As farmgate beef prices collapse towards a five year low, industry experts remain perplexed as to which direction producers are left to steer their businesses. The grave reality is that even the most efficient producers have limited capacity to affect the UK beef price, already cast in a gloomy shadow of global market turbulence, oversupply and stalling UK consumer demand, confounded by currency exchange rates and the odd food safety scandal!