Farming

MOOCALL, an Irish company that developed a calving sensor alert, has received an additional €3.6m in funding from its backers.

This is an older version of the Farming Independent app that is now obsolete.

This is an older version of the Farming Independent app that is now obsolete.

Brazilian agricultural production will grow 3% in 2020, three times faster than this year, driven by rapidly expanding meat exports and another record grain harvest in the 2019/2020 season, the...

Dairy behemoth Fonterra on Thursday raised its forecast milk payment to farmers for the 2019-2020 season as it sees strong global demand.

Farmer are blockading a major supermarket distribution centre as they demand immediate beef price increases this morning.

Up to 130 lorries have been prevented from leaving and entering major distribution centre in County Kildare this morning due to blockades by protesting farmers.

'What would you like for Christmas, honey?" I asked the farmer one morning last week when he came into the kitchen as I was stirring a pot of soup.

Every farmer would love eyes at the back of their head, especially during calving season. While suckler farmer's son Ciaran Feeney isn't able to perform bodily miracles, his newly developed...

In December many farmers take stock and plan for the incoming year. Continued pressure on the prices paid to primary producers remains one of the burning issues for everyone along...

Gardaí have confirmed that air patrols are being deployed at night to prevent raids by criminal gangs on some of the country's remotest Christmas tree farms.

Have you got your sprayer ready to withstand winter conditions? We've had a few very cold nights already, and this time of year really takes its toll on sprayers by...

, on 250ac at Portlaw in Waterford, has been on the market for some time and is now being quoted by Savills at a reduced price of €3.25m, down from...

Beef processors came under pressure from farm organisations to raise cattle prices at the first meeting of the Beef Taskforce today.

AN animal welfare case brought against a Camolin famer was dismissed after a lengthy hearing at Gorey District Court.

Rugby legend John 'Bull' Hayes has appealed to farmers to join an organisation if they are feeling isolated in rural areas.

It is said that a person's house is their castle, but for Richard Moeran and his wife Jacqueline their farm is their castle - they have a castle on their...

Dairy bull calves are being killed with plastic bags and lump hammers by farmers looking to avoid the costs of rearing the unwanted animals, a former TD has claimed.

The average family farm income in Ireland increased by an estimated 7pc in 2019, according to new figures from Teagasc - but the increase was due to a reduction in...

Tuam auctioneer Martin Tyrell is handling the sale of a 38ac residential farm near Abbeyknockmoy in North Galway. The holding includes a residence, part of which was once used as...

Our national forestry programme needs a radical overhaul if it's to attract a broad cross-section of farmers to plant.

Dairy quotas could return by the "back door" in the shape of environmental regulations, the head of Teagasc has warned.

This time last week there was great scepticism among many in the farming community as to whether the farmer protest that had just kicked off in Dublin was a good...

The ICSA claims that fresh analysis it conducted reveals the scale of the margins being made by processors and retailers on heifers destined for the supermarket shelf - the mark-up...

The price rally that began in early November with the entry into the market of those who had waited to see how or if Brexit affected the market continued last...

Farmers protesting in Dublin tell Claire Fox why they have taken to the streets.

If factory prices fail to get above €4/kg in early 2020 then it's time to "close down the Irish beef sector altogether", ICSA beef chairman, Edmund Graham, has warned.

On a cold autumn evening in 1929, Séamus Delargy of the newly founded Folklore of Ireland Society came west to Clare in search of the lost stories of Ireland.

If factory prices fail to get above €4/kg in early 2020 then it's time to "close down the Irish beef sector altogether", ICSA beef chairman, Edmund Graham, has warned.

'Imagine that it took a bunch of nuns sitting out on that road to get this school built?" whispered former TD and MEP Gay Mitchell to me during a function...

A COLLAPSE in the export of waste to China has seen "gigantic piles" of farm plastics build up in several locations around the country, with the situation worsening daily.

How the year slips by. Already we are assembling the figures for 2019. Our cows are winding down for a well earned rest after a long and productive lactation.

Fees for lodging appeals against forestry planting approvals should be introduced as a matter of urgency, a Government review has recommended.

"We're told there are a lot of sheep gone out of the UK because of Brexit. If that's true prospects have to look good," Jim Bushe of New Ross mart...

A KERRY farmer who killed his neighbour by ramming his car with the prongs of a teleporter agri-machine had his manslaughter sentence increased by four years at the Court of...

A KERRY farmer who killed his neighbour by ramming his car with the prongs of a teleporter agri-machine had his manslaughter sentence increased by four years at the Court of...

Kerry milk suppliers will receive a goodwill payment of 3 cent per litre in an interim agreement between Kerry Group and Kerry Co-Operative Creameries Limited in relation to milk price...

A new focus on dairy will see a top Meath farmer host a major machinery auction on his farm this week.

Current European Union president Finland is expected to propose that the bloc's next seven-year budget starting in 2021 amounts to 1.07-1.08% of the member states' gross national income, three diplomatic...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday pledged to use Brexit to introduce new state aid rules, change state purchasing policies and reform farming so that pubic bodies aim to...