The Analyst

The 6pc fall in Glanbia's share price during the week coincided with news that more than a fifth of shareholders had voted against the new remuneration package for chief executive...

Andrew Doyle, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has announced that 4,248 forest owners have received their annual forest premium payments in their bank...

Met Éireann has thrown cold water over hopes that Ireland will bask in a three-month long heatwave following the UK's promise of a 28C “Spanish plume”.

A typical spring barley grower in Ireland will spend €90/ha on fungicides. This increases to €135/ha for a winter barley grower and further increases to €190/ha for winter wheat.

Changes must be made soon to allow fines to be imposed for breaches in competition law, the Fianna Fail spokesperson on Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Billy Kelleher has said.

EU Commissioner Phil Hogan will today unveil a new €1bn cheap loan scheme designed to boost the number of young farmers engaged in staying in the business.

Fine Gael ministers believe they must press ahead with the €3bn National Broadband Plan (NBP) to avoid a drubbing in the upcoming local and European elections.

Yes, it will be dear - but let's finally get on with it. Increasingly you can hardly bless yourself, or wash your face, without downloading some kind of a dooda...

Locals in the Black Valley, Co Kerry, have had to get used to the delayed arrival of new technology.

One of the country's most senior civil servants has warned Cabinet ministers that the €3bn National Broadband Plan does not represent value for money for taxpayers, the Sunday Independent can...

A massive clean-up operation began yesterday after Storm Hannah's gusts which topped 120km/h hammered coastal areas, knocked trees and left thousands of homes without power.

Do you ever wonder how machinery companies manage to make their wearing parts tough enough to withstand years of work in difficult soils?

Processors have been accused of ignoring the plight of struggling pig farmers by failing to pass on the full benefit of market improvements in recent price increases.

The EU Parliament wound up its current term in office last week by backing voter-friendly moves to improve food quality and pesticide approvals. But the future of the Common Agricultural...

From the age of 16, Queen of the Land Louise Crowley knew she wanted to become a farmer. With this in mind, she decided against filling out a CAO form...

He didn't grow up on a farm, but David Butler always had an interest in poultry and when the opportunity presented itself, he took the plunge into organic farming.

Safety was the main reason behind farmer Padraig Moran's decision to install a 70-unit suckler shed on his farm which he runs in partnership with his wife Nuala and son...

There is nobody in Ireland who believes that any home, regardless of location, should be without electricity. That belief is what drove the politicians of the last century to deliver...

Fertilizer maker Yara International and IBM plan to launch digital farming services later this year to help boost crop yields, eventually targeting 100 million hectares, or close to 7 percent...

A 72ac section of the Kilmurry Estate at Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, is coming to auction. The property includes pasture, woodland and a fully renovated two bedroom gate lodge, which can...

Farm consultants are waiting up to two years for payment from the Department of Agriculture for their work on the Knowledge Transfer (KT) scheme.

Hot, dry summers are fanning an unprecedented outbreak of bark beetles that are destroying vast swathes of central Europe's spruce forests which define the region's landscape.

Phil Hogan made a passionate intervention at the last meeting of the Agricultural Council where ministers had an opportunity to discuss the proposed new green architecture in the Commission's legal...