Beef
British farmers slam short-term memories in the meat trade
The National Farmers Union in the Britain has warned that the opportunism and short-term thinking from some in the meat trade...
Beef
The National Farmers Union in the Britain has warned that the opportunism and short-term thinking from some in the meat trade...
Agri-Business
The Deputy President of ICMSA has questioned the compatibility of milk imports and the Dairy Quality Assurance (DQA) scheme. Pat...
Agri-Business
Although UK consumers will be happy to hear that Tesco has cut the price of food products, the move has...
Agri-Business
In truth, the answer to the aforementioned question may well come courtesy of the IFA’s ‘chat’ with members of the...
Beef
The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) along with National Farmers’ Union, NFU Scotland, NFU Cymru and the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU)...
Beef
COMMENT: Not that long ago the attainment of Farm Quality Assurance status was sufficient, for the most part, to ensure...
Agri-Business
COMMENT: The issue of single farm payment (SFP) entitlements – and who will own what after 2015 – is one...
Dairy
COMMENT: There are increasing numbers of calves being reared on Irish dairy farms in response to the removal of milk...
Dairy
The relationship between quantity and quality of grass on Irish farms and farm profit cannot be under-estimated. This is according...
Agri-Business
Dairy farmers need to learn from the mistakes of the Celtic tiger property boom and not leap into post-quota expansion. This...
Dairy
Milk production levels on many farms may be at an all time high and the market is returning better prices,...
Dairy
Over 19 days, spread across four months, the case of the former chief executive of Dairygold against his former employers...
Other
The View from Teagasc: The major challenge in Irish farming is to mobilise scarce land resources into productive and profitable...
Agri-Business
“Northern Ireland is on track to deliver on the ambitious targets set for its agri-food industry but succession is key...
Agri-Business
At a sitting of Bandon District Court today Anthony Dineen, Inchafune, Dunmanway, Co Cork pleaded guilty to six sample offences out...
Government
Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney TD has insisted overpayment fines issued to more than 4,800 farmers amounting to €1.4m must be...
World News
World View: New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) announced today that additional independent testing has established there was no...
Environment
The UK’s National Farmers Union (NFU) has this morning cited Ireland’s badger controls as justification for culling in the UK to...