This week’s Balmoral Show has seen a wide range of updates provided regarding the current state of agriculture in Northern...
May 13, 2022
Supermarket chain Waitrose has announced a support scheme worth up to £16 million for its British pig farmers. It will...
May 6, 2022
Lincolnshire Trading Standards has removed 225 pigs from a farm it deemed to be a high-risk premises. An investigation, warranted...
April 22, 2022
The National Farmers Union (NFU) Scotland has said that in order to preserve the pig industry, the standard pig price...
April 19, 2022
There is a growing concern that farmers in Northern Ireland (NI) are not buying enough fertiliser to meet their full...
April 6, 2022
Leading Scottish pig farmer Jamie Wyllie welcomed Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs Mairi Gougeon on his farm yesterday as...
March 17, 2022
A new support scheme worth £2 million for local pig farmers in Northern Ireland has been announced today (Friday, March...
March 11, 2022
Large numbers of farmers in Northern Ireland are claiming that the pig industry is in deep crisis – one which...
March 7, 2022
A welfare training platform for the pigs sector has been launched by the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) today,...
March 1, 2022
Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots is reminding pig owners about the risk of African Swine Fever (ASF) following a...
February 4, 2022
East Derry MLA Claire Sugden has expressed her “profound concern” that current labour shortages and other economic forces are making...
January 26, 2022
Pigmeat production in November this year, at 93,000t, was 11% higher than in November 2020, despite the ongoing challenges faced...
December 15, 2021
Ulster Pork and Bacon Forum chief executive, Deirdre McIvor, has confirmed that farmers and processors working within the Northern Ireland...
November 1, 2021
Danske Bank’s head of agri-business, Rodney Brown, is confirming that most of Northern Ireland’s farming sectors are performing well at...
October 18, 2021
The government has announced a package of measures to support the pig industry which has faced a number of challenges...
October 17, 2021
Reports have emerged this afternoon (September 21), claiming the UK government has struck a deal to reinstate carbon dioxide production....
September 21, 2021
The backlog of pigs to be slaughtered could reach as many as 24,000 in just a month, according to representatives...
A £715,000 hardship fund has been set up to offer financial support to pig producers affected by the temporary closure...
August 31, 2021
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