Rural Life
'Carving' out a business – and a better life – from pig farming
By Caroline Allen When it comes to buying a farm, starting out with a piece of string and a pencil...
Rural Life
By Caroline Allen When it comes to buying a farm, starting out with a piece of string and a pencil...
Pig/Poultry
‘Making pig farming great again’ will be the theme at the 2017 Irish Pig Health Society Symposium, which moves to...
Beef
The jump in the cattle population in the Republic of Ireland has been driven by higher numbers of stock under 24...
Pig/Poultry
Current pig prices are just covering costs with many pig farmers struggling financially facing into 2017, according to the IFA Pigs...
Pig/Poultry
Next year Irish pig farmers will be required to spread slurry on an area one third larger than is currently...
Pig/Poultry
A fire at a pig farm in Co Carlow has a substantial amount of of pigs dead. The fire, which...
Rural Life
A woman from Co. Louth has been fined €3,710 after she was convicted of a range of offences for failing to have...
Pig/Poultry
The effects of the Russian ban on agriculture products are still being keenly felt by farmers, the Minister for Agriculture,...
Pig/Poultry
The Department of Agriculture is considering allocating a small portion of EU aid package funding to the Irish Pig Society...
Pig/Poultry
A supply shortage will continue to drive the pork import in demand in China, supporting the recovery of the global...
Pig/Poultry
Irish pig farmers are to receive their share of the EU aid package announced last September in the coming week,...
Pig/Poultry
A 4c/kg increase in pig prices last Friday has brought some relief to pig farmers, according to IFA Pigs Committee...
Agri Politics
A farmer in Argentina was shocked to discover that one of his sows had given birth to a deformed piglet...
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
The Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, has been called on to take immediate and urgent action to ensure the pig...
Pig/Poultry
The national sow herd in Ireland has dropped by 5% in December 2015 compared to the same month a year...
Pig/Poultry
Plans are afoot in Russia to create a pig production cluster which is to have a capacity for 1.2m head...
Pig/Poultry
A leading pig farmer has slammed the €1m pig aid payment allocated to Irish pig farmers as ‘absymal’. It comes as...