Farming

It's understood the new farming body, Independent Farmers, which represents farmers still protesting at factory gates won't be attending talks between farming organisations and the meat factories on Monday.

Food waste should be tackled with the same kind of urgency as the Amazonian forest clearance. While recent climate change reports have targeted the reduction of livestock numbers, slashing food...

Summer is drawing to a close so preparation for the breeding season should be well under way. Management decisions between now until mating in mid-October will have a big influence...

After a week that saw claims of workers being blackmailed in a "menacing email" which hinted at exposing an alleged sexual affair and threats of violence, the disputing parties in...

Meat Industry Ireland (MII) said this evening (Friday) said that an increased number of plants are being blockaded.

IRELAND'S nominee to the European Commission, Phil Hogan, appears set to secure the powerful trade portfolio next week.

High Court proceedings that could have resulted in the imprisonment of persons protesting outside two beef processing plants have been struck out following an agreement between the factory owners and...

Ireland's own partridge family is celebrating a new release that could make the record books.

The end of an era in pedigree Charolais breeding has arrived for one of the largest and longest-established herds in the country with the dispersal of the well known Skidoo...

The late Ian Paisley's 'Irish cows' could hold the "germ" of a solution to the border backstop, Boris Johnson has suggested.

China and the United States on Thursday agreed to hold high-level talks in early October in Washington, cheering investors hoping for a trade war thaw as new U.S. tariffs on...

Close to 90pc of spring cereal crops remain to be cut in Donegal as continuous heavy rains have brought the harvest in the county to a standstill.

While August is traditionally quiet, it has been a busy month in the auction rooms for some auctioneers, including Meath-based Raymond Potterton.

Two weeks ago I wrote about the issues the main asset-owning spouse should consider when faced with a family law case. In my experience over the past 30 years, in...

Farm loan delinquencies rose to a record high in June at Wisconsin's community banks, data showed on Thursday, a sign President Donald Trump's trade conflicts with China and other countries...

Talks between farming organisations and meat processors are set to resume next week after a breakthrough to get parties back around the table.

WIRELESS broadband company Imagine Communications says it's already connecting rural customers to its 5G network who have been waiting for years for the National Broadband Plan to arrive.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is pledging to “change things for the better” for Scotland's farmers – starting with a funding boost of more than £200 million for the industry north...

Ireland's disappointing summer ended with above average rainfall - but at least is was warm.

Chinese health inspectors are expected to start evaluating four Brazilian beef plants on Thursday as part of a push to approve new meat exporters amid an outbreak of swine fever,...

Mairead McGuinness MEP and first Vice-President of the European Parliament has initiated moves for the Parliament's Agriculture committee to examine the crisis which has led to prolonged protests at meat...

Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed has confirmed that he will facilitate new talks between all parties to the beef dispute on Monday.

Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed has confirmed that he will facilitate new talks between all parties in the beef dispute on Monday.

DIRECT sources from farmyards are a more significant source of phosphorus and nitrogen pollution of rivers and streams than water-courses from fields, according to a new study.

It is that time of year again when I do some sort of grass budget for the rest of the grazing season. I don't properly measure grass, but a quick...

While this year's harvest is not yet complete, it is time to complete sowing of Winter Oilseed Rape (WOSR) for harvest 2020.

The Agriculture Committee wants to pick up the work on the post-2020 EU farm policy reform where it was left before the EU elections, MEPs said on Wednesday.

Switching farms from cows to crops or feeding animals seaweed are not going to provide 'silver bullet' solutions to Ireland's biggest greenhouse gas problem, farming experts have said.

A beef support package announced to much fanfare by the Government before the local and European elections has been massively under-subscribed.

Seated next to the Agriculture Minister, the doyenne of rural Ireland Anna May McHugh took the opportunity to express her own concerns about the beef farmers' situation.

Britain proposed an all-island economy for food and agricultural products - effectively creating a border in the Irish Sea in an alternative to the backstop.

Factory workers and farmers who passed the beef protests in recent weeks were met with verbal abuse, threats of violence, and blackmail, the factories have claimed.

Factory workers and farmers who passed the beef protests in recent weeks were met with verbal abuse, threats of violence, and blackmail, the factories have claimed.

Switching farms from cows to crops or feeding animals seaweed are not going to provide silver bullet solutions to Ireland's biggest greenhouse gas problem, farming experts have said.

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed today launched a Plan for the Development of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's Regional Laboratories, announcing an...

The situation on the ground yesterday saw quotes for both lambs and cull ewes no worse than they were seven days ago.

Germany will ban the use of glyphosate weedkiller from the end of 2023, two government sources said on Wednesday.

Ornua's PPI has dropped for August 2019, despite calls by farmers that Irish co-op milk prices are "falling behind EU counterparts".

Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed has extended the deadline for applications to the €100m BEAM (Beef Exceptional Aid Measure) scheme as just 20,000 out of a possible 70,000 eligible farmers...

A second attempt is to be made this morning for a Chinese Audit team to carry out an inspection of Kepak's meat processing facility in Athlegue Co Roscommon.