Pig/Poultry
Pig farmers still awaiting EU aid money, months after dairy farmers were paid
Irish pig farmers are still waiting their share of the EU aid package money that was announced last year. The...
Pig/Poultry
Irish pig farmers are still waiting their share of the EU aid package money that was announced last year. The...
Pig/Poultry
Pigmeat consumption is on the rise in the European Union, with the average person consuming 40.9kg of pigmeat in 2015,...
Pig/Poultry
Irish pig farmers are still awaiting their share of the EU dairy and pigmeat aid package monies that were announced...
Agri Politics
Farmers from across Europe were protesting today in Brussels as EU Agriculture Ministers met to try and come up with solutions...
Agri Politics
Increasing the public intervention ceiling, deferring superlevy payments and a futures markets have been put forward by Ireland as ways to...
Agri-Business
In spite of North Ireland beginning to export its pigmeat to India last month, Bord Bia and the Department of...
Agri Politics
EU Agriculture Ministers are meeting in Brussels today with discussions on the current crisis in the dairy and pigmeat sectors...
Other
The pigmeat Private Storage Aid Scheme (PSA) open since 4 January 2016 has been closed. The decision comes following a...
Agri-Business
Favourable currency exchanges assisted the value of Irish food and drink exports by over €1 billion in 2015. While Bord...
Pig/Poultry
Irish pigmeat exports last year were up 8% on 2014, with the UK being Ireland’s largest export market followed by...
Pig/Poultry
New rules opening private storage aid in the pigmeat sector have entered into force today, the European Commission has announced....
Pig/Poultry
EU Agriculture Ministers are set to examine the difficulties in the pigmeat sector at its Council meeting next week. At...
Pig/Poultry
The method of payment of the monies for the pig sector from the direct aid package is to be ‘decided...
Pig/Poultry
Pig farmers are facing further income difficulties as the price of pigmeat dropped by 4c/kg last Friday, according to the...
Agri Politics
Brazilian meat production is expected to continue its fast growth in the coming decade, according to the FAO. In its...
Pig/Poultry
As a consequence of the below average pigmeat prices, the first signs of a decline in the reproductive herd can...
Pig/Poultry
Brazilian exports of pigmeat to Russia have increased dramatically in 2015, with approximately 153,800t of this product entering the Russian...
Pig/Poultry
The total number of pigs in Ireland in June 2015 was estimated at 1.5m, according to the Central Statistics Office...