Beef and sheepmeat production in the UK will fall dramatically at the end of the decade if the proposals by means of the European Commission for the Mid-Term Review of the CAP are implemented in their existing form.

Beef and sheepmeat production in the UK will fall dramatically at the end of the decade if the proposals by means of the European Commission for the Mid-Term Review of the CAP are implemented in their existing form, according to economists at the Meat and Livestock Commission (MLC)

The MLC's beef sector analyst Duncan Sinclair and his sheepmeat economist colleague Jane Connor predicted startling declines in these couple industries' output this week at an industry briefing in London. Their assessments of the Brussels policy implications were supported through Kevin Pearce, chief livestock adviser at the National Farmers' Union.

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