Sofina Foods has restated its commitment to pig farming in Northern Ireland, after the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) voiced ...

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Diggers have moved on-site to start the construction of a controversial farm in Newtownabbey that will house 15,000 pigs. Enabling work started on Monday this week as lorry loads of hardcore arrived ...

The new cross-industry roadmap to improve welfare for Irish pig farming aims to incorporate pasture-based and agroforestry production systems ...

As well as processing pigs from its Brydock Farms, which operates 24,500 sows and 100 rearing sites in Scotland and England, Sofina also works with 750 independent farmers across the UK and Ireland to ...

Shauna Jager studied food and agribusiness management in UCD, graduating in 2022, and worked in New Zealand for a year before joining Bord Bia’s graduate programme.

A supermarket has given notice to some pig suppliers as the sector takes a downturn. Show more The supermarket Morrisons has given notice to some of its pig farmers, because of an oversupply in the ...