Farming

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell Welsh farmers today they will get a better deal after Brexit, part of a countrywide tour to win support for his "do or die"...

EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan came under fire from Irish and European MEPs last week on what they called an "Armageddon" Mercosur deal at the first meeting of the new...

Teagasc needs to make a clear public statement on its position over proposals to cull the national suckler herd, the IFA has warned.

The growing popularity of alternative meat is emerging as a real threat to traditional farming, a new survey has revealed.

Two weeks ago, we reported on the INHFA call to exclude farmers availing of a nitrates derogation from Pillar 1 CAP payments.

Processors have warned that beef prices could fall further and farmers have ramped up protests at meat factories as the crisis in the sector deepens.

SOME winter barley growers are facing yield losses of 1.5t/ac due to severe problems with barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV).

Pictured at the launch of the 2019 Zurich-Farming Independent Farmer of the Year Awards are Jason Byrne, Head of Agri Business at Zurich Ireland, Margaret Donnelly, Farming Editor, Irish Independent;...

It may be time for Leo Varadkar to head down Dungarvan way and make contact with his mother's side of the family, who still have farming links.

British farmers claim the €100m support scheme for Irish beef could disrupt the trade in the UK.

While the mart trade for stores roars ahead - with some sales seeing prices pushing right up to €90/hd, which is factory territory - actual factory quotes for lamb yesterday...

Trade continues to be very difficult. Reports from across the country yesterday indicated that a base price of €3.50/kg for bullocks has become the norm, with indications that the ABP...

Farmers protesting at a trade deal with Canada vandalised the office of a lawmaker from Emmanuel Macron's LREM party on Monday in the latest example of demonstrators targeting LREM premises...

Sterling sunk more than 1% to a 28-month low on Monday, as more investors scrambled to factor in the growing risk of a no-deal Brexit and the chance that new...

Concerns have been raised the UK Government may struggle to pass legislation to protect the British market against a flood of cheap imports in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

It is not easy to find Clooncullaun Bog. You leave the pretty village of Creggs on the Galway side of the Galway-Roscommon border and venture a few kilometres over narrow,...

Reacting to the exclusion of dairy farmers with herds in excess of 40 cows, the President of ICMSA said that the decision was “unjust, unfair and had set a disastrous...

The county Limerick farmer who made headlines over how green diesel got in his van is now sucking diesel after his conviction was quashed.

In decades to come, farmers may pool their money to buy small robot vehicles to weed their fields or drones that can hover to squirt a few drops of pesticide...

T-shirt weather is here to stay for the coming week with Met Eireann predicting dry conditions and temperatures into the 20s.

A 'fighting' IFA presidential candidate has thrown down a challenge to the government on the expected multi-billion pay out on carbon costs/fines as the leadership election campaign moves into gear.

There has been significant interest among farmers in the pilot phase of Glanbia/Kepak Twenty20 Beef Club.

Just 1 in 10 [9%] Irish people consider their carbon footprint when purchasing food, according to new research released today by the European Milk Forum (EMF).

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed T.D., today announced final details of the Beef Exceptional Aid Measure (BEAM).

The great thing about sitting on a combine is the bird's-eye view you get of all the problems in the field.

From beef to bees via 'chucklings', it's been a week of firsts on the farm. The bovines kicked it off, as the heifers started to calve, our first calves of...

As I stood in a queue, I overheard two glamorous looking ladies discussing how many steps they had done.

I was recently asked to repair a slurry tanker which had a recurring problem of passing slurry through the pump when the tanker got full.

The Beef Plan Movement is holding a number of what it describes as 'peaceful protests' outside meat factories this week as it calls on members to not trade on Monday.

The Beef Plan Movement is holding a number of what it describes as 'peaceful protests' outside meat factories this week as it calls on members to not trade on Monday.

Beef farmers are holding protests at a number of processing plants over a deepening crisis in the sector which factories have warned could get intensify this Autumn.

With mating approaching the 12 week mark on many farms, the bulls should now have been removed from the cows.

The long summer evenings allows time for contemplation and over the recent past we have witnessed a lot of discussion about the negative aspects of red meat production, and the...

Storm Powell travelled to Kilcullen Mart last week to hear farmers' views on Mercosur, the Beef Plan protest and the future of farming.

Farming entrepreneur Mary Murphy has proven that the sky is truly the limit for her invention of the sheep marking gun as she was recently announced as one of five...

Oldtown House is a Victorian estate on 180ac at Oldtown near the picturesque village of Ardagh in Co Longford. The property is for sale as an entire with a guide...

KBC bank's application for a High Court injunction requiring the family at the centre of the Co Roscommon eviction controversy to leave their home will be heard in October.

Farmers have been ordered to stop harvesting in France's second largest grain producing department Oise after hundreds of hectares of fields caught fire during an intense heatwave.

A California judge has reduced a $2bn (€1.8bn) jury verdict, slashing the award for a couple who blamed Bayer AG's glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup for their cancer to $86.7m.

Gardaí launched a massive raid yesterday against two gangs who have formed an alliance that is suspected of being among the biggest burglary organisations in the country.