Pig/Poultry
IFA pig protests stood down ahead of 'high-level' meeting
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has confirmed that it has stood down pickets at two pig processing plants ahead of...
Pig/Poultry
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has confirmed that it has stood down pickets at two pig processing plants ahead of...
Pig/Poultry
A senator has requested that a new report on the Irish pig industry is reviewed by the Joint Oireachtas Committee...
Pig/Poultry
A group of pig farmers, who are members of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), remain on the picket line in...
Agri-Business
Teagasc has told the National Fodder and Food Security Committee that the average 600-sow pig unit has lost €206,000 since...
N.Ireland
Information has been sought in relation to a pig that was involved in a road traffic collision in Co. Down...
Pig/Poultry
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has “strongly condemned” today’s announcement by pig factories of another 4c/kg price cut. IFA Pig...
Agri-Business
Three more cases of African swine fever (ASF) have been detected in wild boars in Germany. According to Reuters, the...
Opinion
Farmers For Action (FFA) has been receiving complaints from pig farmers supplying Cranswick Country Foods at Cullybackey (Co. Antrim) in...
Beef
During Bord Bia’s Meat Marketing Seminar – which took place in Co. Kildare yesterday, January 10 – the Chinese market...
Pig/Poultry
Farmers have expressed their dismay at the refusal of pig processors to increase Irish pig prices for yet another week....
N.Ireland
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) in Northern Ireland has issued best-practice pig management tips – for...
Rural Life
This week at the New Hampshire in the US, a pig showed up at a polling station where voters were deciding...
Pig/Poultry
Pig Processors are fully cognisant of the difficulties faced by Irish pig producers presently, according to Meat Industry Ireland (MII), the IBEC...
Pig/Poultry
The drop in the Chinese pig herd will impact the entire global pork market from now and into 2016, according...
Pig/Poultry
A new project being undertaken by Teagasc is looking to get pig and tillage farmers together to increase the use...
Pig/Poultry
The global pork industry has been searching for stability during the first quarter of 2015, according to Rabobank’s latest Pork Quarterly...
Pig/Poultry
There is scope to increase Irish farm gate pig prices by a further 8c/kg on the back of recent currency...
Pig/Poultry
Stress makes pigs more likely to suffer from Porcine CircoVirus Associated Disease (PCVAD) symptoms, according to the results of a...