Farming

An outstanding three-year-old, home-bred cow won the Supreme Championship award at the National Dairy Show at Millstreet, one of the most coveted dairy honours of the year for Holstein breeders.

Reducing the country's cow herd will be the “last resort” in tackling carbon emissions, the Taoiseach has said.

AIB has announced it is making an additional €75m in funding available as part of the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland's (SBCI) ‘Future Growth Loan Scheme' which is designed to...

African swine fever will spread further across Asia where it has devastated herds, and no country is immune from being hit by the deadly animal virus, the head of the...

A family of farmers worried that their windswept North Sea island will be engulfed by rising sea-levels is among a Greenpeace-led group of plaintiffs seeking a court ruling that Germany...

One in five of the country's rivers and lakes had high levels of farm fertilisers, a new citizen science project has found.

ABP meats in Lurgan is set to see its production lines brought to a standstill on Monday as workers stage a twenty-four-hour strike

Revenue at nutrition group Glanbia jumped by almost 17pc in the first nine months of 2019 on the back of acquisitions.

€270billion: that's the money needed to stop the rise in greenhouse gases and buy up to 20 years of time to fix global warming, according to United Nations climate scientists.

The price we are getting for our lambs can only be described as depressing.

The price we are getting for our lambs can only be described as depressing.

Will England's presence in the Rugby World Cup final make any difference to the price of beef?

An additional €550m that the Government pledged to the EU budget annually should now be diverted into a national top-up for Pillar II schemes, the INHFA has claimed.

A veterinary inspector has told a court that it is a matter of days and weeks before things get drastic for the remaining 80 horses on the lands of a...

A €60-75 million drop in beef farmer spending on compound feed has been forecast this year as the collapse in cattle prices ripples out into the wider farm sector.

Tariffs on Irish butter exported to the US may not be resolved until an election in the US in 2020, CEO of Dairygold Jim Woulfe (pictured) has said.

A major TB outbreak continues to cause concern in Monaghan, with a herd incidence of 6.12pc and 991 reactors to date in 2019.

A long-awaited change to the Fair Deal nursing home scheme for farmers will not allow them to recoup additional financial contributions made before the new law, it was confirmed yesterday.

I wonder if the Victorians who built Silversprings House at Mooncoin in Kilkenny were familiar with Molly, the lovely rose, whose name rings out around Croke Park with far too...

After three very wet months exceeding 360ml of rain, we are experiencing rapidly deteriorating ground conditions.

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the Cattle Association of Veterinary Ireland conference in Limerick.

When it comes to drying off, there is so much disinformation and uninformed opinion that will do more harm than good. It time to dispel the myths:

A revival of the Early Retirement Scheme for farmers has been ruled out by the Department of Agriculture.

The realities of 'disruption' should be embraced by young farmers, president of Macra na Feirme told members at the organisation's annual conference last weekend.

When it comes to drying off, there is so much disinformation and uninformed opinion that will do more harm than good. It time to dispel the myths:

The realities of 'disruption' should be embraced by young farmers, president of Macra na Feirme told members at the organisation's annual conference last weekend.

All our concern about developing strategies for BYDV control in the absence of seed dressing have been taken away from us - there has been very little sown before mid...

The cold snap which brought a dusting of snow and frost to higher ground is set to continue today before heavy rain moves in, according to Met Éireann.

Flying calves out of Shannon Airport and live streaming of IFA meetings were two of the most ear-catching topics discussed at the recent Cork hustings.

Groups that seek and oversee millions of euro in funding for rural communities have been told they must 'use it or lose it'.

Beef farmers cannot be expected to take all the risks associated with rearing dairy calves, the ICSA claimed this week.

Compensation levels paid to farmers under the bovine TB eradication scheme should be examined and possibly capped, according to a new report on the long-running programme.

The dairy sector is facing a serious animal welfare challenge this spring if farmers are forced to rear tens of thousands of additional bull calves, a Teagasc animal welfare scientist...

Are the problems associated with unbridled expansion in milk output finally coming home to roost for the dairy sector?

A taskforce to tackle ongoing differences between sheep producers and processors around pricing, weight limits and the sourcing of lambs has been called for by the INHFA.

Forestry planting levels are expected to fall further behind Government targets even as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the farming sector continue to rise, agriculture chiefs have conceded.

The clocks going back is a signal that winter is here and when we look around we can see nature really is slowing down and in a way it is...

The founding fathers of IFA would be appalled that the farm organisation didn't lead the recent beef protests, farmers told presidential candidates at the recent election hustings in Cork.

Farm contractors are threatening to take tractors onto the streets to protest over the imposition of higher carbon taxes on green diesel.