Environment
UPDATE: More than 18,000 farmers benefited under the Imported Fodder Transport Scheme, under which, to date, payments worth some €2.4m...
UPDATE: The drafting of exemptions is under way for the haulage of agricultural fodder in Ireland’s height limits regulations brought...
Agri-Business
The opportunities for Ireland’s agricultural sector, dairy in particular, are endless but there are challenges and influencing factors on the road ahead...
Sheep
More than 1,000 producers came to look, learn and listen, question and query, when Ulster Grassland Society President John Martin...
The agri-business sector has been a consistent mainstay of the Irish economy for generations. However, today, given that almost a quarter...
The ICMSA is calling on the Government to apply for additional flood relief funding from the EU following last week’s...
Kepak Group has informed staff at its Hacketstown, Co Carlow lamb abattoir this afternoon that it is to cease operations...
Dairy
According to DairyCo, milk production, for major exporters, continues to improve on 2012/13 allowing for stocks to replenish. For January,...
More than 288 farmers attended last night’s Wexford Milk Producers (WMP) agm to consider two related motions, one of confidence...
There was significant damage and disruption in the transport and energy sectors across Ireland caused by yesterday’s storm. This is...
While Ireland is the heartbeat of Glanbia, the internationalisation of the business is fundamental to future growth. This is according...
There are huge business opportunities for Irish organic production to the export markets of the UK and Western Europe, in particular...
The growing resistance of roundworms to anthelmintic treatments is threatening sheep farmers’ ability to control the parasites. Tom Coll of...
Arable
Farmer attitudes to soil fertility and analysis were clearly outlined at the recent the Fertilizer Association of Ireland Spring meeting....
The high numbers attending recent Teagasc forestry advisory clinics reflect the level of interest by landowners considering forestry and by...
According to DairyCo, feed wheat futures for May-14 have rallied in recent days, bouncing off of the low of almost...
“The agri-sector presents huge opportunities for Port of Cork‘s exports, with the lifting of the Common Agriculture Policy production limits...
Common health issues around lambing time and the important role nutrition plays in having a successful lambing season was highlighted...
