The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has “strongly condemned” today’s announcement by pig factories of another 4c/kg price cut. IFA Pig...
November 13, 2020
Three more cases of African swine fever (ASF) have been detected in wild boars in Germany. According to Reuters, the...
October 5, 2020
Farmers For Action (FFA) has been receiving complaints from pig farmers supplying Cranswick Country Foods at Cullybackey (Co. Antrim) in...
September 25, 2020
During Bord Bia’s Meat Marketing Seminar – which took place in Co. Kildare yesterday, January 10 – the Chinese market...
January 11, 2020
Farmers have expressed their dismay at the refusal of pig processors to increase Irish pig prices for yet another week....
March 9, 2018
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) in Northern Ireland has issued best-practice pig management tips – for...
May 4, 2017
This week at the New Hampshire in the US, a pig showed up at a polling station where voters were deciding...
February 10, 2016
Pig Processors are fully cognisant of the difficulties faced by Irish pig producers presently, according to Meat Industry Ireland (MII), the IBEC...
September 17, 2015
The drop in the Chinese pig herd will impact the entire global pork market from now and into 2016, according...
August 19, 2015
A new project being undertaken by Teagasc is looking to get pig and tillage farmers together to increase the use...
June 25, 2015
The global pork industry has been searching for stability during the first quarter of 2015, according to Rabobank’s latest Pork Quarterly...
May 7, 2015
There is scope to increase Irish farm gate pig prices by a further 8c/kg on the back of recent currency...
April 30, 2015
Stress makes pigs more likely to suffer from Porcine CircoVirus Associated Disease (PCVAD) symptoms, according to the results of a...
April 12, 2015
New EU food labelling rules have been extended to identify the EU Member State or third country of rearing and...
April 9, 2015
Strengthening pig prices on the continent may well help to stabilise farm gate returns in Ireland, according to Bord Bia...
February 23, 2015
Pig farmers have no problem with foreign meat being sold on Irish shelves as long as it’s properly labelled, according...
February 16, 2015
The IFA’s pigmeat DNA testing campaign has been slammed as both ‘sinister’ and ‘unhelpful’ by the Associated Craft Butchers of...
The substantial drop in pigmeat prices over the last number of months has been acknowledged by the European Commissioner for...
January 28, 2015
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