Beef
Uraguauan Minister says beef will be part of EU trade deal negotiation
The Uraguauan Foreign Minister, Rodolfo Nin Novoa has said that beef quotas will form part of a new free-trade deal...
EU
EU
Renewed calls for mandatory labelling of milk and meat products
Country of origin labelling should be made mandatory for meat and milk, MEPs have once again reiterated in a non-binding...
Beef
EU Trade Commissioner refuses to rule beef out of Mercosur trade deal
EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström refused to rule beef out of a new trade deal between the EU and a host...
EU
Commissioner Hogan to talk Brexit as he visits the North tomorrow
The Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Hogan, will be in Northern Ireland tomorrow, Monday May 9 on an...
N.Ireland
Voluntary milk reduction programme losing support in Europe
A plan to allow dairy cooperatives and farmers to agree to cut milk production on a temporary basis is losing...
EU
Commission takes Germany to court over nitrates causing water pollution
Germany has been referred to the Court of Justice of the EU for failing to take stronger measures to combat water...
Agri-Business
Canadian government to compensate dairy farmers for EU trade deal
The Canadian Government has committed to compensating its dairy farmers due to loss of earnings as a result of the...
EU
The future of EU farming lies in innovation - MEPs
Innovation can increase farmers’ income, create rural jobs and make EU farming more sustainable, MEPs from the Agriculture committee said...
Dairy
FrieslandCampina slashes milk price for May
FrieslandCampina has slashed its guaranteed price for raw milk for May by €2.50, bringing the milk price to €25.00/100kg of...
EU
Hogan hopes to 'make progress on hindrances' to EU trade in China this week
The Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Hogan, is visiting China and Japan this week with a business delegation of...
N.Ireland
UFU calls on the Commission to re-register glyphosate
The Ulster Farmers’s Union (UFU) has called on the European Commission to re-register glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide...
N.Ireland
UFU calls on the Commission to re-register glyphosate
The Ulster Farmers’s Union (UFU) has called on the European Commission to re-register glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide...
Sheep
European sheep supplies set to remain tight in 2016 - AHDB
European sheep supplies are likely to remain tight in 2016, as the French ewe flock has declined by 2% in...
Arable
Science 'sidelined' in Roundup renewal debate
As debate rages in Europe of the future of the commonly used herbicide ‘glyphosate’, Agricultural Science Association President, Neil Keane has...
Dairy
Volumes of milk powder in intervention hits EU limits
The volumes of milk powder offered to intervention since the start of the year have reached the EU’s limit of 109,000t....
EU
EU to provide milk to 350,000 Syrian children
The European Commission has adopted a €30m programme which will see it provide 350,000 Syrian children with drinking milk. This...
Dairy
12 months on from milk quotas - what's changed?
One year ago today, the milk quota regime finally came to an end in Ireland and in EU Member States. 30...
Dairy
Intervention ceiling almost reached by Member States
Ireland started putting Skimmed Milk Powder back into public intervention this week after it offered 608t to the measure, figures...
