Pig farmers are holding their third protest in SuperValu in less than a week in a bid to highlight low prices and cheap imports. Following protests in SuperValus in Castletroy, Co Limerick and Kilbarry, Co Waterford, farmers have now taken to Charleville in Co Cork.

In a statement to the Irish Farmers Journal, IFA pigs committee chair Tom Hogan said farmers were losing €6,000/week and they wanted to see Musgraves and SuperValu selling 100% Irish pigmeat.

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The protesting farmers want to highlight the volume of foreign product being sold in SuperValu stores and the use of brands that sound Irish such as “Meadow Fields” but are actually from Holland.

Pig farmers have said these cheap foreign imports are being used to undercut their product at a time when feed prices are rising. This, Tim Cullinan IFA national treasurer, says is creating a “perfect storm” that has the pig sector at crisis point.

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