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Beef
Winter finishers losing €200/head on stores
Adam Woods
Adam Woods has the latest on this week’s beef trade including winter finishers margins
31 January 2024 Northern Ireland
Two years of losses at Karro Food Ltd
The pig-processing business operates a major site at Cookstown in Co Tyrone.
29 January 2024 News
Horticulture crisis fund payments begin issuing
The €2.38m fund supports a one-off payment to horticultural growers most affected by the continued high level of input costs.
NPA accounts show return to Ploughing meant a surge in turnover
National Ploughing Association reports before-tax profit following two years of losses.
19 December 2023 News
Pig farmers: 'If I'm going to go through another bad spell I won't be in it'
Our profits are just getting eroded away every week by the processors, one pig farmer told the Irish Farmers Journal.
13 December 2023 Pigs
Pig price drops are 'pure profiteering' by processors
IFA pig chair Roy Gallie called a meeting in Portlaoise last week in the wake of seven price drops in the last three months.
13 December 2023 News
Pig farmers still losing €25/pig - IFA pig chair
After three months of price drops, the current average pig price is sitting at €2.11/kg.
13 December 2023 News
Pig farmers hit out at processors at Portlaoise meeting
A meeting was organised by the IFA pig committee in the wake of seven pig price drops in the last 10 weeks.
7 December 2023 News
Pig prices forecast to drop by 11% in 2024
Despite the drop in output price, the Irish pig sector is expected to continue to deliver moderate levels of profitability in 2024.
6 December 2023 News
Letter re compensation to farmers following flooding
"Flooding – The government is dithering on help. Their excuse, we can’t breech EU State aid rules." – Judy Bryant, Co. Offaly
22 November 2023 Letters
Ireland's vegetable sector is a basket case
If steps aren't taken to protect vegetable growers, the sector is vulnerable to the vagaries of weather and yields.
1 November 2023 Dealer
Potato growers: 'There'll certainly be losses this year'
The last wettest year that potato growers remember is 2012, with reports that a lot of people reckon 2023 has been even worse than that.
25 October 2023 News