Talks between the Minister for Agriculture and Irish Farmers' Association representatives of pig farmers are set to resume this afternoon.
The talks will take place in the Department of Agriculture.
It follows a three-hour meeting last night between farmers and Charlie McConalogue that ended at midnight.
The discussions centre on urgent calls from the country's pig farmers for a €100 million State intervention to save their industry.
The farmers say they can no longer absorb deep losses, exceeding €56,000 per month each, that have come about as a result of escalating feed and energy prices and poor market returns for pigmeat, which sit well below the production cost levels.
