Farming

With silage wagons and balers busy in Irish fields, farmers should not forget that whatever nutrients come out must go back into the ground.

Gyorgy Balint, Hungary's favourite gardener, turns 100 this month and his advice is more sought after than ever.

I'm delighted at the obvious progress being made by rural communities of the take-up of twin pollinator/biodiversity messages - but I feel there are a few further actions that would...

When Sven Sjoholm's uncle spotted an advertisement in Fur Rancher magazine, outlining the tax breaks that Ireland was offering to mink farming start-ups, he showed the magazine to his brother...

Compared with June and July 2018, thankfully Ireland has reverted to a normal summer weather pattern, resulting in bumper silage and even hay crops.

The impact of Storm Ali last year sent pre-tax losses soaring to almost €500,000 at the company which operates the National Ploughing Championships.

The impact of ‘Storm Ali' last year sent pre-tax losses soaring to almost €500,000 at the company which operates the National Ploughing Championships.

A 34-year-old farmer who has sued after he suffered horrific injuries to his hand when it was sucked into a combine harvester has claimed for €1.65million in losses, the High...

A 34-year-old farmer who has sued after he suffered horrific injuries to his hand when it was sucked into a combine harvester has claimed for €1.65million in losses, the High...

Inland fisheries Ireland secured a conviction against Mr. Bryan O'Neill, a landowner on the Munster Blackwater, for removing spawning gravels during last summer's drought.

With another severe heatwave forecast, road transport of live cattle through continental Europe has been prohibited from this weekend, until further notice.

A farm worker's hand was sucked in to a combine harvester as he tried to free grain clogging up the machine, the High Court heard.

We are just heading into the harvest of the largest area of winter barely we have ever had in this country. It's approaching 80,000ha this year. For an individual crop,...

For the past couple of months I've been looking at my options for getting into forestry. For years, I'd been guilty of dismissing it as an enterprise that was only...

More pressure is set to be heaped on the EU Commission to abandon its controversial Mercosur trade deal after new data shows deforestation in Brazil has soared in July.

Farmers who avail of a nitrates derogation should not qualify for any Pillar 1 CAP payment, and these funds should be redistributed, according to the INHFA's 10-point plan for the...

A recent survey of dairy farmers which showed that 84pc would be willing to plant trees on their farm is a clear signal that farmers are willing to make a...

The price of new and used diesel and petrol cars will go up by as much as €1,000 under plans to clamp down on emissions.

MET Éireann has issued a rainfall warning for 10 counties as thundery downpours are expected to hit the west of Ireland and parts of the midlands.

The distribution of the recently announced €100m beef support package for the beef sector has seen farmers turn on each other.

The cereal harvest is up and running as combines roll into winter barley crops across the south and east on the back of the recent warm weather.

Eight people died in agricultural incidents in Northern Ireland last year.

Each mart manager or auctioneer I have talked to over the last week has spoken of an air of despondency among their clients. Mart managers note many things as they...

Farmers and gardeners have been warned that accidentally planting or recklessly allowing Japanese Knotweed to spread to another property could result in a prosecution.

The country's beef processors have been accused of "hypocrisy and greed" on their beef pricing policies by a leading national IFA officer

Veterinary representatives have criticised a ruling by the Veterinary Council that it won't interfere on the ownership of practices, saying vets won't have clinical autonomy if they are employees of...

Farmers and gardeners have been warned that planting or recklessly allowing Japanese knotweed to spread to another property could result in a prosecution.

'War made the state and the state made war." This is the pithy theory of one historian on the role of conflict in creating the sort of modern states in...

Officials have denied drawing up plans for the slaughter of millions of sheep in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Factory prices for sheep continue to melt, like an ice-cream cone in the July heat. Like that ice cream cone, the factories continue to bleed the value out of the...

The Government's move to scrap plans to allow roadside hedgecutting in August has provoked a strong reaction in some quarters.

Ireland will oppose the EU's plans to scrap daylight saving time under proposals to be brought to Cabinet by Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan today.

Factory prices remain under pressure. However - with the kill figures last week coming in at 34,650 - are there signs that the possibility of further downward pressure might be...

Fair play to the ICSA and Sean McNamara for standing up for sheep farmers and resisting the price drop. It's about time farmers started to stand up for themselves, and...

Argentina's world-famous ranchers are culling their breeding cows at the highest rate in 30 years and tapping Chinese demand for meat in order to help pay their bills as access...

The Beef Plan movement took to the streets of Dublin, with significant numbers of support from both members and politicians, last week.

DAIRY processors have been accused of paying below-market returns for milk, even though most co-ops announced unchanged prices for June.

MITSUBISHI has just released prices and specs for its new L200 Double Cab pickup.

Up to 12 farmers a week walked away the sheep sector in 2018, the latest National Sheep Survey confirms.

Ireland should double the volume of ethanol in its petrol as a quick way to make climate goals achievable, according to a report by economist Jim Power.