Farming

The Irish agri sector needs to restore public trust as climate change is the “single biggest issue” across Irish doorways in the run up to the EU elections, EU Agriculture...

The often lethal dangers associated with farm activities was highlighted by a coroner today (Monday) at an inquest into the death of a 50-year-old Co. Mayo farmer who was pinned...

The European Court of Auditors will visit Ireland as part of an audit to assess whether the EU's agricultural policy helps maintain and enhance biodiversity.

Farmers are demanding development prices for lands that County Councils require to carry out vital extensions to cemeteries.

Many of the country's marts are not prepared for the introduction of electronic tagging of sheep (EID) and will not have tag reading systems in place by June 1.

Sharp divisions over the share-out of the €100m Brexit beef package emerged this week, with the farm organisations expressing divergent views over who should qualify for supports.

Rural Ireland is fast becoming the winner from the local and European elections.

Friesian bull calves are being advertised for free by an Irish live export company.

Gardai cannot categorise 'lurching' as a crime on its Pulse system, the Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan has confirmed.

Factory prices appeared to have stabilised after their recent resurgence. Yesterday I could find no agent willing to push beyond €4.00/kg for bullocks and €4.10/kg for heifers.

Even the most optimistic of us would find it hard not to adopt a cynical outlook at the announcement of a €100m beef support package days out from European and...

Friesian bull calves are being advertised for free by an Irish live export company.

Calls have been made for compulsory purchase orders (CPO) to be used for graveyards as farmers ramp up prices for land.

Kildare County Council has given the green light to plans by Intel for its planned new $4 billion (€3.53bn) manufacturing fabrication (FAB) facility at its Leixlip plant.

A Co Meath farmer has lost his Supreme Court appeal over a bank's appointment of a receiver over annual payments of some €170,000 to him under the EU Basic Payment...

Even in the worst case scenario – if just 10pc of farmers use the technology - it would still be worth the massive sums the Government is investing, Communications Minister...

Welcome rain in the four largest European Union wheat producers raised hopes for a good harvest this summer after a dry spring sparked fears of a repeat of last year's...

ICSA's sheep committee is today protesting at Irish Country Meats (ICM), Camolin, Co Wexford, as it claims processors across the board continue to hammer sheep farmers with savage price cuts.

Just over 15 years ago, my then editor Mairéad McGuinness called to tell me that, instead of posing the hard questions as she had for many moons previous, she was...

East Cork land is valued ground and dairy farmers in the area will be closely watching the progress of an 80ac residential farm at Coneybeg, Watergrasshill.

GARDAI have arrested a Limerick man in connection with 16 bales of silage being slashed to pieces in the dead of night.

The forest industry in Ireland has evolved in recent years to a situation where contracting is the norm. There may now be many links in the chain between 'forest owner'...

Disturbance during the construction of a motorway through a farm can be massive, particularly if the holding is a dairy, bloodstock or other livestock farm.

Suicides across rural Ireland now pose one of the greatest challenges to society, Tánaiste Simon Coveney has acknowledged.

Suicides across rural Ireland now pose one of the greatest challenges to society, Tánaiste Simon Coveney has acknowledged.

A new study has found that efficient dairy farms operating on poorly drained soils can be as profitable as those on drier land.

'There's a time for everything - working in an abattoir is a young person's game." That's according to farmer, butcher and abattoir owner Dominic Feely, who has decided to put...

Cathal Swan, his wife Julie and their son Shane farm at Skyrne, close to Tara in Co Meath.

Q.We live at the end of a 'right of way' and are the only house on this right of way. Ourselves and three other farming families have the right of...

At Dave Harper's family farm in New Zealand's scenic Canterbury region, a painstakingly bred flock of lambs is grazing, not on grass, but on a field of herbs selected to...

A man has gone on trial charged with deceiving five men into transferring approximately €1.765 million total into bank accounts he controlled.

Export interest in Irish Limousin genes boosted the trade at the Irish Limousin Cattle Society Premier Show and Sale at Central Auctions Mart in Roscrea on Saturday.

The sale of a 123ac farm at Lisnagaul near Bansha in Tipperary will mark the end of an era in farming for the O'Brien family.

Bayer AG plans to argue that a $2 billion jury award and thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup causes cancer should be tossed because a U.S....

Northern Ireland's dairy farm industry is growing amid improving conditions for the sector, the head of agriculture at Ulster Bank has said.

Demand for beef is growing in Asia, but we can't expect China or any Asian country to replace the UK market, according to Mark Goodman of ABP.

When grass growth is high at this time of year the challenge of managing this grass is usually trying to get swards grazed out satisfactorily without any adverse effects on...

A woman who sued after she was injured in a horse riding accident on a fox hunt has lost her High Court action.

ICOS Marts Committee have warned that if a new €50m beef support package announced by EU Commissioner Phil Hogan amounts to slaughter only assistance it could be directed to a...

Waterford beef and tillage farmer Edmond Phelan has officially put his name forward to run for ICSA president it has been confirmed.