Mart managers are calling on the Department of Agriculture to allow viewing times for registered buyers as the country looks set to move to a mix of Level 4 and...
October 19, 2020
The overall kill at exporting plants for the week ending the 11th of this month reached 36,434, up 898 on the previous week which in turn was 1,883 stronger than...
October 19, 2020
Schools and creches will remain open under strict new Covid-19 restrictions being considered by the Government.
October 18, 2020
A man killed in a car crash during the early hours of Sunday morning in Lisburn has been named as 18-year-old Josh Fletcher from Moira, Co Down.
October 18, 2020
A new Wildlife Crime Unit to be set up in the National Parks and Wildlife Service next year will improve protection for Ireland's wild mammals and birds and their habitats.
October 18, 2020
Benjamin Franklin is reputed to have said that when it comes to advice, fools won't take it and the wise don't need it.
October 16, 2020
Dairygold has increased its September Quoted Milk Price by 1cpl to 31.75cpl, based on standard constituents of 3.3% Protein and 3.6% Butterfat, inclusive of bonuses and VAT.
October 16, 2020
Around 118,000 farmers will start to receive advance payments totally €781m under the Basic Payment Scheme.
October 16, 2020
A couple of years ago, veganism was booming. I was editing a glossy vegan food magazine and every day brought more plant-based product launches and glowing Instagram stars proffering raw...
October 15, 2020
One of the more substantial farms to come on the market this year is a 237ac non-residential holding in Kilkenny.
October 15, 2020
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to one another,” said John F Kennedy, and I find his words quite apt.
October 15, 2020
The Green Party is the biggest tail wagging the dog in Irish history, and Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have sold their souls to Eamon Ryan, it was claimed in...
October 15, 2020
The Green Party is the biggest tail wagging the dog in Irish history, and Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have sold their souls to Eamon Ryan, it was claimed in...
October 15, 2020
Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd on Thursday raised the price range it pays farmers for milk, as demand increases in China, its top market.
October 15, 2020
Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd on Thursday raised the price range it pays farmers for milk, as demand increases in China, its top market.
October 14, 2020
Details of a new €5m dairy calf to beef scheme were revealed today by Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue in his post-Budget briefing.
October 14, 2020
Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue has rowed back on previous commitments to abolish levies paid by farmers to Bord Bia.
October 14, 2020
Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue has rowed back on previous commitments to abolish levies paid by farmers to Bord Bia.
October 14, 2020
Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue has rowed back on previous commitments to abolish levies paid by farmers to Bord Bia.
October 14, 2020
We all know about the billions in funding to fight Covid-19, respond to the threat of Brexit and support measures like the Christmas Bonus for welfare recipients. But there was...
October 14, 2020
We lose more farmers in Ireland to suicide than we do to farm accidents every year.
October 14, 2020
We lose more farmers in Ireland to suicide than we do to farm accidents every year.
October 14, 2020
Up to 500 more farmers will be supported to convert to organic farming under measures announced by Minister Pippa Hackett.
October 14, 2020
Up to 500 more farmers will be supported to convert to organic farming under measures announced by Minister Pippa Hackett.
October 14, 2020
Agricultural contractors will will have no option but to pass on a '28pc Carbon Tax cost increase' directly to farmer customers, the Association of Farm & Forestry Contractors in Ireland...
October 14, 2020
Brazilian Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias said Portugal favors swift approval of the trade agreement between the European Union and the South American trade bloc Mercosur as she visited Lisbon,...
October 14, 2020
Glanbia Ireland (GI) will pay a base milk price for September of 30.18 cpl (including VAT) for creamery milk at 3.6% fat and 3.3% protein. This is unchanged from last...
October 14, 2020
Dingle Hub has been awarded €220,000 to develop farm enterprises that are based on carbon efficient practices, following a successful application to the EU Horizon Fund which they made with...
October 14, 2020
Without doubt, farming and the wider agri-food sector escaped the worst of Covid-19 this year, a factor the Department of Finance took into account when drawing up the Budget.
October 14, 2020
There will be little comfort for farmers in the Finance Minister's closing remarks yesterday. "If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere," Paschal Donohoe said, quoting Seamus Heaney.
October 14, 2020
Outside of tourism, the next best economic driver in Kerry is its farmers, according to local dairy farmer Kevin Galvin.
October 14, 2020
There will be a 33pc increase in funding for the organic farming scheme under Budget 2021.
October 14, 2020
Farmers, for the most part, breathed a sigh of relief when Budget 2021 confirmed key schemes vital to their income would be rolled over.
October 13, 2020
A man in his 50s has died after the tractor he was driving overturned in Graiguenamanagh, Kilkenny.
October 13, 2020
A man in his 50s has died after the tractor he was driving overturned in Graiguenamanagh, Kilkenny.
October 13, 2020
Farmers will today be presented with a ‘roll over' Budget as schemes and taxation measures remain, for the most part, unchanged under the 2021 Budget.
October 13, 2020
Farmers were today presented with a ‘roll over' Budget as schemes and taxation measures remain, for the most part, unchanged under the 2021 Budget.
