Farming

What a difference a year makes. While the country was struggling through the 10th week of scorching temperatures this time last year, and farmers were battling to keep water and...

Farmers are demanding answers from Taoiseach Leo Varadkar as beef prices fall and details of the Mercosur deal emerge.

The deal between the EU and the Mercosur countries is the latest in a series of trade agreements to be concluded by this European Commission.

It's safe to say, without fear of exaggeration, that Europe is currently standing on the edge of a political cliff with no obvious way out.

A surge in grass growth is driving strong silage yields and large amounts of surplus bales being made on farms nationwide.

A bank seeking an injunction to force three siblings to leave the farm at the centre of the Co Roscommon eviction controversy has said the case is “about the integrity...

The ICSA sheep price protest outside Kepak Athleague is continuing today.

Fresh concerns on the finalising of the CAP post 2020 have been raised by Ireland South MEP, Sean Kelly as the new parliament are set to meet for the first...

A High Court judge has directed a hearing of key legal issues concerning the extent of the ESB's liability for compensation to landowners for laying of electricity lines across their...

Ballinalee in north Longford was home to the famous General Seán Mac Eoin, leader of the most effective Flying Column in the midlands during the War of Independence.

Having excessive lambs is not an issue for most sheep farmers, but it's a problem Offaly farmers Ken and Richard Matthews have tackled head-on.

The vast majority of correspondence I receive on foot of my articles relate to some aspect or other of farm succession.

Irish beef farmers reeling after the EU signed a trade deal between the European Union and the Mercosur group of South American countries suffered another blow as French President Emmanuel...

As many as half of China's breeding pigs have either died from African swine fever or been slaughtered because of the spreading disease, twice as many as officially acknowledged, according...

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has admitted Ireland cannot block a new trade deal that threatens to devastate the Irish beef industry - and has not ruled out backing the plan.

In the coming weeks Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will have to decide whether to reappoint Phil Hogan for a second term as Ireland's European commissioner. But one of Mr Hogan's last...

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has admitted that Ireland alone cannot block a new EU trade deal that threatens to devastate the Irish beef industry - and has not ruled out ultimately...

Make no mistake, the Mercosur deal struck on Friday is bad news for Irish farming and especially the beef sector.

Big Phil does not sound totally convinced. The agreement, he admits, "presents some challenges" to Irish farmers, but the European Commission will be "available to help" farmers meet those challenges.

Farmer feed and forage costs rose by €500m in 2018, as adverse weather pushed up fodder prices, Central Statistics Office (CSO) data shows.

Farmer feed and forage costs rose by €500m in 2018, as adverse weather pushed up fodder prices, Central Statistics Office (CSO) data shows.

'I know a lot about pigs, but I don't know everything," says west Wicklow pig breeder Dermot Allen as he prepares for another busy evening with his hog roast business,...

The Rossiter brothers dominated the first championships of the newly formed Irish Suffolk Sheep Society, taking home the three champion titles.

One of the finest farms to make its way on to the market in the north midlands for some time has to be an 83ac roadside holding at Collierstown between...

A record-breaking heatwave in western Europe may trim grain harvest production but the searing heat is not expected to last long enough to cause the kind of severe crop losses...

The Government's Climate Action Plan published last week has been widely welcomed as a serious attempt to set out a roadmap to reach our legally binding 2030 emissions targets and...

The first fully autonomous farm equipment is becoming commercially available, which means machines will be able to completely take over a multitude of tasks. Tractors will drive with no farmer...

When Deirdre O'Sullivan and Norman Kenny purchased Nurney House with its accompanying 14 acres near Carbury, Co Kildare back in 1990 they had a clear plan to grow organic fruit...

This spring's mild weather has suited my farm with grass growing very well, However, the recent cold spell, especially some very cold nights, have really slowed things down. Hopefully growth...

A new high-tech “sheep shed” has been unveiled which researchers say will allow them to monitor the impacts of livestock in real-world farming systems.

Consumers could be in line for cheaper beef, fruit and coffee following a trade deal between the EU and a South American trading bloc - but farmers have branded it...

The timing of this trade deal couldn't be worse for Irish farmers.

Farm organisations are calling on the government to reject the Mercosur trade deal, signed today by Europe and the South American trading bloc.

The newly elected president of the ICSA, Edmond Phelan, has said that the €100m beef fund must be distributed as soon as possible.

Irish milk production has broken through the 1bn litre mark as milk intake at creameries was estimated by CSO to be 1,100.3m litres in May.

Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed is being called on to reject a proposal in the new EU Animal Health Law Delegated Act to impose 30-day pre-movement testing for TB on...

New figures from the CSO underline the income pressures which farmers faced in 2018 as a result of farmgate price cuts, soaring input costs and historic weather events.

A part-time farmer who was caught tending to almost 200 cannabis plants at a derelict farmhouse has claimed he was ‘duped' into renting the property to criminal elements.

WHILE much of the public focus has been on the electrification of our cars for the future, it is easy to overlook the fact that another, more immediate, decision lies...