Agri-Business
Video: Air washer to cut ammonia emissions from pigs
Ammonia emissions from pigs are reduced by up to 90% through the use of an air washer at the Duroc...
Agri-Business
Ammonia emissions from pigs are reduced by up to 90% through the use of an air washer at the Duroc...
Pig/Poultry
University College Dublin (UCD) academic, Prof. Patrick Wall, wants the Irish government to take the needs of agriculture more seriously....
Pig/Poultry
Ongoing research is confirming that native grains, treated with a specific mix of organic acids, will act to boost growing...
Agri-Business
By Gordon Deegan Contentious plans for a large-scale extension to a piggery in east Cork, opposed by one of Ireland’s...
Agri-Business
By Gordon Deegan Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) president, Tim Cullinan has moved to put the financial performance of his piggery operation in...
Agri-Business
The number of sheep slaughtered in January increased by 10.8% compared to the same month in 2022, according to the...
Pig/Poultry
Pig farmers across the country are breathing a small sigh of relief following an 8c/kg rise in pig prices today...
N.Ireland
A Belfast man has been convicted of one charge of causing unnecessary suffering to three pigs and one charge of...
Pig/Poultry
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has called on Irish pig processors to increase prices immediately by a minimum of 8c/kg....
N.Ireland
A farmer from Northern Ireland has been sentenced to prison for causing unnecessary suffering to animals. Nigel Foster (55), of...
Pig/Poultry
The ceiling of investment for pig farmers under the coming Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS), is set to be increased...
Pig/Poultry
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) will hold a ‘national meeting’ for pig farmers next week in Dublin. The announcement of...
Pig/Poultry
The Irish Pig Health Society (IPHS) has confirmed that it will host its 2023 symposium at the Midlands Park Hotel,...
Agri-Business
The number of cattle slaughtered between January and December last year increased by 6.7% compared to the same period in...
Agri-Business
The average Irish pig farmer is now carrying debt of €600,000, according to the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) Pigs Committee...
N.Ireland
Recent days have seen the first consignment of frozen pig semen exported to China by the Co. Down-based genetics operation,...
Environment
A Lombardstown, Co. Cork building, originally constructed as a dwelling house, which subsequently fell into disrepair in the early 1900s...
Pig/Poultry
A new 26-storey pig house in China has started to take in its first sows after a €570 million investment...