Dairy
VIDEO: Ben Roche on Collaborative farming
The long-serving collaborative farming expert Ben Roche has been commended for his tireless work over the years, by Minister for...
Dairy
The long-serving collaborative farming expert Ben Roche has been commended for his tireless work over the years, by Minister for...
Environment
A 50% reduction in meat and dairy consumption, and production, would reduce current European agricultural reactive nitrogen emission by around...
Agri-Business
Sustainable farming is about innovation, according to Franz Fischler, former EU Agriculture Commissioner, but biotechnology does not provide the full...
Agri-Business
Well done Strathroy Dairies. Courtesy of the bit of the business the company has just completed with its new group...
Environment
“This is the reality, this is the science, the directive is based on science” was the message from Jack Nolan...
Agri-Business
RTÉ News has announced this afternoon the appointment of George Lee as its Agriculture and Environment Correspondent. Currently a correspondent...
Agri-Business
Global figures for organic market performance demonstrated growth in 2012 and 2013 across Europe and North America. US, Germany, France...
Environment
There is growing concern over new wayleave rights in ESB legislation, which could see private contractors gain compulsory access to...
Arable
Precision farming technology will be a key element of the second instalment of the Teagasc’s BETTER farm crop programme. This is according to Teagasc...
Dairy
Total income from farming in Northern Ireland increased by 33.7 per cent (31 per cent in real terms) from £223m...
Agri-Business
Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Michelle O’Neill has this week reminded the public of the existence of a fraud hotline...
Environment
Ireland’s new Green Low-Carbon Agri-environment Scheme (GLAS) payment must include organic farming as a core element and, in particular, organic...
Agri-Business
Cork-based farmer David Jennings spoke on his own experience of farming in partnership at today’s Positive Farming conference in Clonmel,...
Agri-Business
There was a tremendous turnout of delegates from this side of the Irish Sea attending the recent Oxford Farming Conference....
Agri-Business
More than 58,000 jobs were created last year in Ireland and 25,000 of these were in farming. This is according...
Agri-Business
August began with the news that Dawn Fresh Foods was closing its plant in Fethard with the loss 104 permanent...
Agri-Business
COMMENT: The tremendous news generated by the dairy sector over recent days has been tempered by the more than challenging...
Agri-Business
Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, and farming organisation, the ICMSA, have described the threatened industrial action at ESB as “a...