# Intensive Agriculture

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2022

Intensive farming set to ramp up if planned pig and poultry farms approved

If given the go ahead, up to 12 million more chickens and 55,000 more pigs would be industrially reared.

If given the go ahead, up to 12 million more chickens and 55,000 more pigs would be industrially reared

This would produce roughly 26,000 tonnes of excrement annually, Noteworthy reports

Climate scientist: Proposed increase 'especially concerning' given impact on ammonia emissions

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Dec 13th 2022, 12:05 AM

# factory farm

'Canary in the coal mine': Protected nature areas under pressure from poultry farming

Cross-border investigation reveals serious environmental and air quality concerns from ammonia produced by the rapidly expanding poultry industry on the island of Ireland.

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Jul 7th 2022, 6:30 AM

THE MORNING LEAD

'Potential fraud' in poultry farm planning applications investigated in the North

A report by

Niall Sargent

Noteworthy cross-border project reveals serious concerns over the authenticity of documents claimed to be from an Irish State body.

Falsified or altered Teagasc letters used in 23 poultry farm planning cases in the North, Noteworthy reveals

Both national and local authorities in the North are currently investigating the issue

Several cases of dumping of poultry litter discovered in Northern Ireland since 2015

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Jul 6th 2022, 12:05 AM

# factory farm

Suspected false documents and illegal dumping: the murky world of poultry manure

Noteworthy reveals serious concerns over authenticity of files used in some poultry farm planning cases in the North and where the manure is going.

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Jul 6th 2022, 12:01 AM