A delegation from the IFA will meet pig processors this Thursday, pig committee chair Tom Hogan has told the Irish Farmers Journal.

Around 50 farmers attended the crisis meeting held at the Barack Obama Plaza in Moneygall on Monday night. The farmers in attendance own a combined 35,000 sows.

“We have decided we are going to meet all the processors,” Hogan said. “There will be a delegation to each one on Thursday. Hopefully at this stage there will be a price rise on Friday.”

Farmers are frustrated that despite rises in the European price and African swine fever (ASF) issues in China, there has still not been a significant price rise in Ireland.

“A lot of people are at the end of their tether. People felt like that we have been promised price rises but we want them now. Cashflow will not come back to normality for at least two or three months. That’s the scenario, it’s frustrating.”

There were discussions of restricting supply at the meeting but “at the end of the day the way the pig situation is you can’t hold back pigs for a week".

It was mentioned about setting up producer groups but that’s not going to happen over night, according to Hogan.

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