Farming

One of the Larry Goodman meat processing plants being picketed by farmers in the protest over beef prices was part of a group that recorded pre-tax profits of €3.12m last...

Billy Loftus of Ballina Mart told me he is beginning to see the weather impact his trade. "We've had a lot of rain over the last few weeks and our...

Storm Powell travelled to Ballinasloe Mart to hear about the Beef Plan Movement talks and beef prices.

Beef, and especially the suckler cow, has been getting a lot of bad press lately. I just wish people would take a step back and see the bigger picture.

Keeping a 'closed herd' - never buying in or renting any cattle - is definitely the best way to keep diseases out of your farm. However, the reality for most...

The High Court will be asked on Friday to decide whether a protesting farmer should be sent to jail, in the first of what Mr Justice Senan Allen was told...

Beef protests are continuing outside a number of meat factories despite a High Court injunction preventing groups from blocking entries to plants.

Ireland's largest beef processor, ABP is expected back in the High Court this afternoon seeking a committal order on foot of yesterday's injunctions.

Dawn Meats is expected back in the High Court this afternoon seeking a committal order on foot of yesterday's injunctions.

European Commission has agreed that provision be made for a higher rate of advance payments under the 2019 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and a number of Rural Development Schemes.

Meat processors expect Gardai to intervene to get lorries and cattle into factories, according to Meat Industry Ireland Director Cormac Healy.

The Beef Plan Movement has told its members that anyone who participates in any protest at meat factory gates it will expel them from the organisation.

Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, on Wednesday said milk production in July climbed 4.8% year-on-year in New Zealand, helped by good conditions at the start of the season.

The volumes of dairy exports out of the EU have increased, new figures from Fonterra show, as demand from China continues to grow.

Animal feed manufacturers have strongly rejected claims by the IFA that the industry is profiteering on the backs of tillage farmers, by keeping ration costs high despite the expected drop...

ICSA president Edmond Phelan has called on the meat industry to forget about litigation against "helpless farmers who are on their knees".

ALMOST €900m has been wiped off the value of the stake in Glanbia plc owned by farmers through the Glanbia Co-op in little more than six months.

BORD Bia says it wants Irish pork producers to carve out a bigger market share in China, which it calls an "increasingly critical" region for the industry.

The owners of up to a dozen meat plants have been granted temporary High Court injunctions restraining groups of protesters from blockading their factories after allegedly intimidating staff and suppliers.

BORD Bia says it wants Irish pork producers to carve out a bigger market share in China, which it calls an "increasingly critical" region for the industry.

As summer slips by and we head into the autumn, I wondered what monetary value do you put on a year that has given us exceptional grass growth.

I got an early-morning call last week from a farm consultant in the west who wanted to set up a farm organisation. "Sure there's nobody doing anything for the sheep...

Sean Conway farms at Coondrihara, Lavagh, Ballymote, Co Sligo at the foot of Knocknashee with his wife Angeline three sons David, Alan and Fergal and daughter Aine.

The owners of up to a dozen meat plants today Tuesday have been granted temporary High Court injunctions restraining groups of protesters from blockading their factories and intimidating staff and...

The owners of up to a dozen meat plants today Tuesday have been granted temporary High Court injunctions restraining groups of protesters from blockading their factories and intimidating staff and...

Gardaí are investigating an incident of sudden death which occurred on farmland in Ballynacargy, Co Westmeath on August 23 at approximately 6:30pm.

IFA presidential candidate Tim Cullinan and a group of 30 supporters protested and entered the office of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) this afternoon demanding for the state...

The IFA president Joe Healy has said talks around the issues in the beef sector are a waste of time, if price cannot be discussed.

The European Court of Auditors is conducting an audit to assess the EU's use of new imaging technologies to monitor the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

Countries like Ireland and France “overreact” when they link the recent fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest to the final approval of a trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur...

Restrictions on malting barley intakes by Boortmalt have provoked a furious reaction among growers, with many facing massive income losses and farmers struggling to find a home for thousands of...

'I've cut down to two slices of bread a day but there's one thing I still can't do without and that's butter on spuds." These are the words of Roscommon...

A recent spike in lamb imports from Northern Ireland has been described as a "cynical tactic" and a "shameful" effort on the part of the factories to keep a lid...

Beef prices and weather unpredictability are piling extra pressure on farmers in recent years, the Samaritans have said.

PLANS are in train for a significant expansion of an Offaly meat processing facility understood to be backed by Chinese investors.

The Climate Change Advisory Council's recent report focusing on the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector had a mixed reception, including from some columnists in this...

The utter hypocrisy of demanding increased environmental ambition at home while backing trade deals with some of the world's biggest environmental laggards looks like it's dawning on the Government.

A CPO compensation assessment is an alternative to statutory arbitration if the local authority and landowner can not agree compensation by negotiation. Until 2001, the next step was to head...

THE resumption of farmer protests outside factory gates yesterday morning came as a surprise to many in the farming community. Indeed, some of those I spoke with who have cattle...

Factories south of the border are unknowingly accepting thousands of stolen cattle, the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party has claimed.