1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (162+ words) Parklands Veterinary Group is to hold its biannual poultry conference and trade show on Tuesday 29 September 2026 in the Armagh City Hotel. The event, taking place under the heading ‘Cracking the future for layers’, opens at 5pm, with the conference running between…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (540+ words) Could Irish curlews be calling with 'Emmerdale' accents in years to come? A new licencing arrangement between Ireland and Britain has facilitated the importation of curlew eggs from the Yorkshire dales. And these ‘Emmerdale eggs’ are now being used to…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (273+ words) Barriers to the export of poultry litter from Northern Ireland to the Republic are putting additional costs on farmers on both sides of the border and must be removed, Sinn Féin has said. A prohibition on the movement of poultry…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (791+ words) It is no secret that Northern Ireland’s poultry industry produces significant volumes of manure. While this manure is a valuable fertiliser resource, it has also contributed to the nutrient management challenges facing the environment. Among the many strategies and roadmaps…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago   (235+ words) The deputy president of the Ulster Farmers’ Union, Glenn Cuddy, has confirmed he is in the early stages of depopulating his birth-to-bacon pig unit on his farm outside Donaghmore in Co Tyrone. Cuddy, who farms alongside his wife and two…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago   (358+ words) How did you get into the promotion of pig and poultry with Bord Bia? I was coming to the end of my two-year graduate programme with Bord Bia, which I had spent working with the meat team when the opportunity…...

4+ mon, 3+ day ago   (301+ words) How did you get into the promotion of pig and poultry with Bord Bia? I was coming to the end of my two-year graduate programme with Bord Bia, which I had spent working with the meat team when the opportunity…...

4+ mon, 3+ day ago   (672+ words) Local egg equipment supplier EggTek is exhibiting at Balmoral Show for the first time this year. The company was set up by Andrew Sayers shortly after he started a free-range egg unit on his farm near Strabane, Co Tyrone in…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (281+ words) The IFA has called for supermarkets and egg packers to come forward with higher egg prices to avert scenes of empty egg shelves in shops. “What we are seeing is history repeating itself,” the association’s poultry chair Brendan Soden said....

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (222+ words) The Mercosur trade deal continues to rumble on in the European houses of power. Revised safeguards were voted through by the European Parliament this week, which means that if the volume of imports increases by over 5% or the European price…...