Dairy
Fonterra offers guaranteed milk price contracts
Following its recent announcement of the 2015/16 forecast Farmgate Milk Price, applications are now open for Fonterra farmers to lock...
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Sheep
Notice a slowdown in lamb growth rates? It's due to grass quality
Much of the slowdown in lamb growth rates is due to sward quality in June, Pat McCambridge of the College of Agriculture,...
Grass
Difficult conditions affect grass growth and silage making
Constant rain showers have led to great difficulty in getting first cut silage harvested, while grass growth in many areas...
Dairy
Ostertagia levels running high in spring 2015 - Glanbia
Glanbia’s bulk milk disease screening service showed high levels of Ostertagia in dairy herds in spring 2015, Glanbia says. Ostertagia...
Dairy
New Zealand dairy farmers braced for $150,000 income drop
DairyNZ is ramping up its support to dairy farmers following the announcement today by Fonterra of an opening forecast Farmgate...
Machinery
Fire at McHale machinery plant in Mayo
A fire has broken out at the McHale machinery plant in Mayo this evening (Tuesday). Local sources say a number...
Opinion
Publication of farm payments should be applied to all sectors
The publication of farm payments to farmers across Europe, including Ireland last Saturday, caused a storm in a teacup that...
Dairy
'German milk prices cover less than 70% of costs'
The average production costs in January 2015 in Germany were 45.64c/kg milk, according to the European Milk Board (EMB), which...
Dairy
Global Dairy Trade down for sixth consecutive time
The Global Dairy Trade has fallen for the sixth consecutive time, down 4.3%. The latest auction comes on the back...
EU
EU institutions reach provisional agreement on animal health laws
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached a provisional agreement on the outstanding issues concerning the proposal...
Sheep
Irish sheepmeat exports to the UK have increased
Irish sheepmeat exports have increased by 1% from this time last year, according to Eblex, the organisation for the English...
EU
Future of organic farming is up for discussion in Europe this week
An informal meeting of EU Agriculture Ministers will take place this week with discussions set to be centred around organic...
Agri-Business
More and more UK consumers shun beef for chicken and lamb
Beef sales in the 12-week period to April 26 were down on the year in both value and volume terms, according...
Arable
'There will be no short cuts on winter wheat this year'
Winter wheat crops are approaching their flag leaf spray, David Leahy Agronomist with Glanbia says. This year programmes have been...
Pig/Poultry
Campylobacter found in 73% of UK chickens
Some 73% of chickens in the UK have tested positive for the presence of campylobacter, the Food Standards Agency (FSA)...
Environment
Agriculture MEPs oppose new emissions reduction targets
Members of the European Agriculture Committee have asked to scrap the European Commission’s plans to set new binding reduction targets...
Rural Life
Think you have a fit family? You could win €15,000
RTE is now searching the country to find the fittest, fastest, strongest families to enter one of Ireland’s most extreme...
Arable
'Favourable crop conditions in Ireland; EU crops above average'
The weather conditions in Ireland continue to be favourable for crop development and in general crop growth conditions throughout Europe...
