The recent rise in prices for pork meat could paradoxically spell the end for more of Wiltshire pig farmers.
Although there were once more pigs than people in Wiltshire, it is feared that some of the remaining ten pig producers in the county could soon go out of business.
Cameron Naughton, who farms at Bishops Cannings, near Devizes, said that, although the recent 15 per cent rise in the wholesale price of pork means that he can now cover his costs, some of his colleagues might see it as a way of paying off their debts and getting out.
He said: "Consumers have seen prices in the shops rise by 30 per cent, but farm gate prices have only gone up by 15 per cent.
"The only reason that wholesale prices have risen is because so many producers have been driven out of business.
"It is a question of supply and demand and even the European producers, who always undercut us, are going out of business."
