date:May 29, 2012
for the Scottish meat industry must be answered, and he called on Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) to carry out research into the various issues. He said Scotland was utterly reliant on exports and agriculture and, with more than 60% of beef and lamb exports and 80% of pork exports going into English markets, producers and processors needed to know how this would be affected if the home market shrank from 60m to 5m consumers. Other questions to be considered, he said, included currency, how to maint