Rural Life
The rocky road through Burren
The Burren, home to last weekend’s Winterage Weekend, has always been an immovable, rugged facet of Irish culture. Its inspiring...
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Rural Life
Unsettled weather set to continue
Winter 2013 is set to continue to bite hard this week, with shorter evenings and Met Eireann forecasting that the...
Rural Life
Pump it Up!
15,000 attendants, including families, farmers, dancers, actors, joined some very big seasonal vegetables at the Virginia Pumpkin Festival in Cavan...
Agri-Business
Kerry Group opens new development centre in Dubai
Kerry Group today formally opened a new Kerry Regional Development & Application Centre in Dubai, UAE, to serve Kerry’s global...
Agri-Business
Glanbia Sales rise 14%
Glanbia has announced that total group revenue grew by 14 per cent in the 9 months to October compared to...
Beef
'Europe's beef classification scheme just doesn’t shape up'
A leading US livestock production specialist has told AgriLand that the EU’s current beef classification system is not fit for...
Machinery
CLAAS launches its infinitely variable transmission system
Following the introduction of the new ARION 600 and 500 last year, CLAAS has extended the range with the introduction...
Agri-Business
Banks left agriculture in the lurch, John Deere president
John Deere agricultural division president, Mark von Pentz, has told AgriLand that the banks’ decision to ‘effectively’ walk away from...
Dairy
'Dairy industry must get on top of digital dermatitis'
UK Veterinarian and cattle lameness specialist Roger Blowey has highlighted the increasing importance of digital dermatitis (DD) related infections that...
Agri-Business
AgriLand's Top Stories This Week
Top stories on Agriland this week NEWS: All things dairy: Limerick scoops dairy top prize All things E&Y: Top honour for Kerry...
Agri-Business
Flexi-milk shortage concerns
“With a 28.65 levy on every litre produced over quota, farmers will be hit with severe financial hardship if they...
Dairy
Independent dairy advice key, ACA President
The biggest challenges facing young farmers are lack of profitability in beef, sheep and tillage enterprises; difficulty in entering dairy...
Agri-Business
Grass growth remains strong as grazing conditions deteriorate
COMMENT: Grass growth figures for the week just past show a drop to approx 30 kgsDM/ha across the country, but...
Agri-Business
Drummonds fined €125,000 after death of two workers in grain silo
Agri-mechant business Dummonds Ltd, was today fined a total of €125,000 plus Health and Safety Authority (HSA) expenses of €19,600 and...
Agri-Business
Can you dig it?
Agri Aware has launched a new curriculum-linked educational resource for primary schools across Ireland called ‘Dig In’. This key resource...
Agri-Business
Top honour for Kerry Group founder
“There are huge opportunities out there. The Irish are better than any other nationality I have worked with, dealt with,...
Rural Life
Winter is coming
For hundreds of years, Burren farmers have marked the end of summer by herding their cattle up onto winter pastures...
Environment
A measured approach
The View from Northern Ireland: As ground conditions start to deteriorate on beef farms and cattle are housed for the...
