Dairy
Ever-growing demand for Irish dairy breeding stock in the UK
Cork-based Grasstec is confirming a significant growth in demand for Irish bred dairy cows and heifers from its fast-evolving farmer-client...
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Agri-Business
Opportunity knocks but once
The opportunities for Ireland’s agricultural sector, dairy in particular, are endless but there are challenges and influencing factors on the road ahead...
Agri-Business
O’Neill comes under pressure to reveal her CAP Reform plans
The North’s Agriculture Committee Chairman Paul Frew has told AgriLand that Farm Minister Michelle O’Neill must come out with her...
Beef
Snapshot of the mart trade
There was a mixed trade in marts throughout the country this week, with the terrible weather all over last week...
Dairy
Strengthening cheese market in the UK
The latest DairyCo figures confirm that those Irish companies exporting cheese on to the UK market have backed a winner,...
Sheep
Farmers see sheep equal milk for margins
More than 1,000 producers came to look, learn and listen, question and query, when Ulster Grassland Society President John Martin...
Agri-Business
Banking on agriculture
The agri-business sector has been a consistent mainstay of the Irish economy for generations. However, today, given that almost a quarter...
Dairy
Farmers urged to take stock of milk supply as quota position improves
The total volume of milk supplies up to the end of January 2014, taking into account the relevant butterfat adjustment,...
Environment
Calls for EU flood relief funding as many dairy farmers still without electricity
The ICMSA is calling on the Government to apply for additional flood relief funding from the EU following last week’s...
World News
More tests for horsemeat in food under way
More DNA tests for beef across Europe are under way following last year’s investigations which revealed some 4.6 per cent...
Dairy
Getting herd feed demand right in the spring rotation
Spring grazing must strike a balance between feeding the herd well and setting up the sward for the next rotation. This...
Beef
Suckler herd in decline, what action is the Government taking?
Recent data from the Department of Agriculture’s Animal Identification and Movement database for 2013 confirmed that the suckler herd is...
Beef
Fury at ‘residency’ penalties on Northern cattle
Hampton Hewitt, owner of Markethill Livestock Mart in Co Armagh, has indicated to AgriLand that the decision taken by the...
Arable
Wide variation in optimum amount of N for spring barley
Results from trials carried out by Teagasc has shown that there is a wide variation the optimum amount of fertiliser...
Dairy
The dairy show season is just around the corner
All the signs are that the IHFA, Irish Holstein Friesian Breeders Association, will push ahead with a major Spring Show...
Sheep
Less options for sheep farmers as Kepak Hacketstown closes
Kepak Group has informed staff at its Hacketstown, Co Carlow lamb abattoir this afternoon that it is to cease operations...
Dairy
International wholesale milk market update
According to DairyCo, milk production, for major exporters, continues to improve on 2012/13 allowing for stocks to replenish. For January,...
Agri-Business
It could be mid-March before farmers get a chance to spread fertiliser
Sources within the fertiliser industry have told AgriLand that large volumes of product are now being moved on to merchants’...
