In the early 1900’s every little farm that had milking cows also had pigs, they thrived on wey, the by-product of the butterfat industry. Examples still exist of the timber slab fences that divided each of the sties that housed a sow and her litter of piglets.

When Britain entered the European Common Market the buttermilk industry collapsed and dairy farmers switched to bulk milk production, bringing on the decline of the smaller piggeries.

Today only modern intensive piggeries are able to compete, with the growth of the world market.