Agri-Business
GIIL investment – jewel in Enterprise Ireland’s agri-food crown for 2013
The commitment by Glanbia Ingredients Ireland Ltd (GIIL) to establish a state of the art processing facility at Belview, on...
Agri-Business
Agri-Business
Reflections of the 2014 Oxford Farming Conference
There was a tremendous turnout of delegates from this side of the Irish Sea attending the recent Oxford Farming Conference....
Agri-Business
Calf rearing and antibiotics
Two of the speakers at a recent calf rearing conference touched on the sensitive subject of treating calves with antibiotics....
Agri-Business
Bank to work with customers affected by bad weather
AIB has indicated to Agriland that it will be announcing its lending commitments to agriculture and to Irish business as...
Agri-Business
Demand responsible for overall increase in world wholesale dairy prices
According to DairyCo, dairy commodity production continues to perform fairly well for the world’s key exporters. Supplies in the US...
Agri-Business
Live exports increased by 11% to €240m in 2013
Stronger cattle and sheep exports helped boost the value of livestock exports in 2013. For the year the value of...
Agri-Business
Agri-food exports key for economic recovery, EU commissioner
Agri-food exports, notably quality products rather then commodities, are vital for helping Europe emerge from economic crisis, as we are...
Agri-Business
Price a key driver in export boom of dairy and beef
A 15 per cent increase in the value of dairy exports, which has exceeded €3bn for the first time ever,...
Agri-Business
Aspirations for rural development in 2014
Teresa Canavan took over as CEO of the Rural Development Council (RDC) in Northern Ireland last September. As she looks...
Agri-Business
25,000 farming jobs created last year as agri-food exports jump 40% in four years
More than 58,000 jobs were created last year in Ireland and 25,000 of these were in farming. This is according...
Agri-Business
Strathroy management meets with Wexford producers
Strathroy Dairy has issued a seven-point guarantee to Wexford Milk Producers (WMP), as the Co Tyrone-based milk processor strives to...
Agri-Business
Agriculture fatalities fall during 2013
Official figures by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) show there were 46 people killed in work-related accidents during 2013,...
Agri-Business
Decision on co-funding rural development imminent
A decision on the proposed co-funding of the next Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 (RDP) is imminent. Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney...
Agri-Business
China’s one-child policy shift, implications for the infant formula market
Starting in early 2014, China will relax the current one-child policy. China’s family planning laws, first introduced in the 1970s,...
Agri-Business
Going for Growth funding under scrutiny
AgriFood Strategy Board (AFSB) Chairman Tony O’Neill has told AgriLand that he plans meeting both the North’s agriculture Minister Michelle...
Agri-Business
Freeze branding – a novel anti-theft deterrent for the beef sector
Freeze branding could be used as a means of deterring thieves from stealing beef cattle and suckler cows. Already widely...
Agri-Business
Looking forward to a prosperous 2014
Agriland does not like odd numbers – so on that basis alone, let’s wish a cheerful goodbye to 2013 and...
Agri-Business
Review of the year: US beef market, TLT, suckler decline and CAP difficulties
November started of with a week-long Bord Bia-led Irish agriculture trade visit to the Gulf States. There was more positive...
