Farming

The ICSA has called for the removal of the TB test exemption for all calves up 120 days of age.

Question: when does a grass-fed cow stop being a grass-fed cow?

Just days after being appointed, Minister for Agriculture, Barry Cowen has an invitation to attend Longford District Court and explain his Department's response to allegations there is a rising cohort...

Over the last two decades, tractors have become increasingly bigger, more sophisticated - and more expensive. A new tractor now costs €87,000 on average, according to industry research.

Local farmers were among the objectors to a proposed new crematorium which has been refused planning permission in Cork.

Weaning will take place on the Conway farm this week with the lambs now around 12-14 weeks old.

For anyone counting, it only took 138 days for our new Minister and 'super-junior' at the Department of Agriculture to be appointed.

When I chat to other farmers, especially tillage farmers, about the Green Party there is usually a deep sigh before they roll their eyes to heaven. The Greens may not...

Meat processors insisted this week that there are no "active cases" of Covid-19 in Irish plants and that "stringent control and mitigation measures" were in place to limit the spread...

There is no appreciable change in factory prices, as the table above shows.

The surprise promotion of Green Party Senator Pippa Hackett to a "super-junior" Cabinet post has enraged some of the party's other nine TDs who did not make the Government first...

With six decades of experience in sheep farming and the butcher business, Martin Calvey has probably forgotten more about the lamb trade than most people will ever know.

Fonterra is introducing a new sustainable payment scheme for its members

Political pop quiz: what's the difference between the 'half car' and the 'high chair'? And who sat in the 'high chairs' in the last government?

The elegant Rushwee House on 81ac near Slane in Co Meath was a dairy farm in the not-so distant past.

Most mornings I wake before 6am. I might listen to a podcast - Teagasc or Farmer's Journal. My wife, Edel, goes for a walk before work. She is a pharmacy...

Newly elected Taoiseach Micheal Martin vowed to act with "urgency and ambition" in the face of the "fastest moving recession to ever hit our country" as the new Government took...

Newly elected Taoiseach Micheal Martin vowed to act with "urgency and ambition" in the face of the "fastest moving recession to ever hit our country" as the new Government took...

The country's new Taoiseach Micheal Martin has said agriculture, food and the marine will remain a priority for the new government.

Fianna Fail TD and Clara native Barry Cowen has been appointed as the next Minister for Agriculture as part of the new government cabinet announced today.

The elephant in the room entered via social media. The negotiating teams from the three parties were set for a long round of talks three Saturdays ago. On the heavy...

Micheál Martin will be elected Taoiseach today after the three parties destined for power voted overwhelmingly in favour of the historic government deal.

Politicians from Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party last night faced an anxious wait to see whether they will be appointed to cabinet. The ultimate configuration of government...

Micheál Martin will be elected Taoiseach today after the three parties destined for power voted overwhelmingly in favour of the historic government deal.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has been elected Taoiseach by the Dáil to lead a historic coalition with Fine Gael and the Green Party.

Blending bloodlines imported from Canada and Australia with the traditional Irish dual purpose Shorthorn breed has seen John Clarke's Doon pedigree herd become one of the most successful in the...

A 62ac residential farm with a modern house and yard adjacent to the famous Banna Strand near Ardfert in Co Kerry is on the market by private treaty with a...

An elderly farmer told a court yesterday that but for the fact that he was on consecrated ground, he would have been killed instantly when confronted by a man armed...

Biodiversity seems to be the buzz word in agriculture for 2020.

A MAN in his 60s has died tonight in a farming accident.

Bayer AG, after more than a year of talks, agreed to pay as much as $10.9 billion to settle close to 100,000 U.S. lawsuits claiming that its widely-used weedkiller Roundup...

Seeking to forestall further claims, Bayer AG is taking a risky bet that an independent scientific review will ultimately show that its widely used weed killer Roundup does not cause...

A businessman is suspected of involvement in the targeting of farmers whose milk was contaminated and horse- feeding troughs poisoned after they bought his land from a Revenue-appointed receiver, the...

A judge has given a west Clare farmer two weeks to pay compensation concerning criminal damage he committed to a fuse box arising from a property dispute with his brother.

The majority of British consumers are against imports of lower standard food as part of any future UK-US trade deal, a survey has suggested.

The estate of deceased Fine Gael councillor John Bailey has secured a temporary High Court injunction preventing an alleged trespasser on farmland from spreading "poisonous weedkiller" on the property.

Germany's Bayer is set to reach a settlement this week with U.S. plaintiffs that claim its glyphosate-based weedkillers cause cancer, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The largest shipment of soybean and derivatives in Brazilian history is being processed this month. Destination: the Netherlands.

Judging by the jump in mart numbers last week, it appears that many sellers resisted the initial temptation two weeks ago of rushing out to show their wares, preferring to...

Parents and guardians of children aged one to five years have been warned against using some drinks, such as almond, coconut and rice 'milks', as dairy milk substitutes because they...