Representatives from the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) and Irish Farmers’ Association discussed the mounting pressures on pig producers in both countries and ongoing the threat of African swine fever, at a meeting in Dublin this week.  The meeting comes against the backdrop of significant pressures facing the Northern Ireland pig sector, with a number of producers having been served notice on their supply contracts to the Sofina Foods site in Cookstown. This is in the wider contect of a challenging and volatile global market, with the ASF outbreak in Spain causing disruption in Europe alongside an already finely balanced supply…