Farming

The French-bred, 12-year-old Aubrac bull, Dauphin, has retained his top position on the ICBF Dairy Beef List for 2020.

Transport issues ruled out almost half of the jobseekers who applied to pick fruit and vegetables in a recent Government recruitment drive.

Recent milk price cuts have seen the price dairy farmers are paid by processors vary by as much as €6,500 for a 400,000-litre supplier, according to figures from the ICMSA.

'You're a bloody eejit," dairy farmer Dinny Galvin said to himself when he discovered the energy savings he could be making on his farm at Lispole on the Dingle peninsula...

A booming trade for marginal land has seen large tracts of ground in the west being purchased by commercial farmers from the midlands, south and east.

What are we going to do if live exports are banned? It is an unlikely outcome from the current horse-trading between the Greens and Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael but...

With the lockdown starting to ease and big players such as McDonald's preparing for a phased return to normal trading, factory prices here continue to improve.

Ireland is in a golden age for archaeological discoveries as new technology and droughts expose thousands of ancient sites and monuments.

Over the past few weeks, we have dosed all the lambs with a white wormer to ensure cover for Nematodirus, on the back of the high risk warnings issued by...

Food safety authorities across Europe are on high alert for a possible upsurge in food fraud after two shipments of horsemeat were seized recently.

At the beginning of March, I planned to write an editorial around how lucky the sector was during Covid-19 in that it was continuing uninterrupted as the weather improved in...

The first thing to notice this week is that the factory price table below is more or less complete.

The access anomaly at opposite ends of the food chain continues.

A man who has raised €26,000 for Pieta House since his father died by suicide on May 1 has appealed to farmers to be mindful of their mental health during...

BUSY farmyards need to become ‘no-go zones' for children and the elderly, the Health and Safety Authority has warned after four farming-related fatalities in the last week.

The last five weeks of glorious weather remind me of the line about ‘the merry month of May' from The Rocky Road to Dublin.

Silage season has kicked off this week in County Limerick, says Bruree-based agricultural contractor John Sheehy.

The number of work permits issued to companies for workers from outside the European Economic Area hit 1,772 in April, the highest since online records began.

With the lockdown starting to ease and big players such as McDonald's preparing for a phased return to normal trading, factory prices here continue to improve.

Tragic news continues to emanate from the agriculture sector as a teenager in Co Meath became the fifth farm-related tragedy this month.

China has asked trading firms and food processors to boost inventories of grains and oilseeds as a possible second wave of coronavirus cases and worsening infection rates elsewhere raise concerns...

Q I have had a shotgun for years and the only real use it's had is for scaring crows after I've sown corn. I've always had a licence for it...

The entire meat industry will be shut down should it be deemed necessary by public health experts, the Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed has said.

The entire meat industry will be shut down should it be deemed necessary by public health experts, the Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed has said.

Mourners at the heart-breaking funeral of a 10-year-old girl killed in a farm tragedy in Co Donegal heard how she was the perfect school pupil.

The Premium Butcher, a division of Dawn Meats, has seen online orders treble between March and April.

IRELAND can start to slowly reopen on Monday after Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said the battle against Covid-19 is going to plan.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted his country will work to thrash out a Brexit deal in a call with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, despite strained talks in Brussels.

Concerns have been raised about the welfare of meat processing workers concerning the spread of Covid-19.

Agriculture Minister Michael Creed is to appear before the Dail next week to face questions about an increase in cases of Covid-19 at meat processing plants.

The European Commission is seeking to halve the use of chemical pesticides by 2030 to halt the decline of pollinators, in a plan likely to draw criticism both from those...

THERE will be fewer jobs in retail, transport and entertainment as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Taoiseach has said.

THE European Commission has put Ireland on a four-month deadline to solve a chemical contamination problem affecting the drinking water supply of 180,000 people.

Gardaí visited a meat factory in which a massive cluster of coronavirus has broken out to warn workers further breaches of social distancing regulations would not be tolerated.

The young victim of a tragic crash which claimed the lives of her mother and sister is making “small but significant steps” to recovery, the family minister has said.

The five-year-old girl who survived the horrific crash that killed her Co Antrim mother and younger sister is still in a critical but stable condition in hospital.

The young victim of a tragic crash which claimed the lives of her mother and sister is making “small but significant steps” to recovery, the family minister has said.

Kerry has announced it will cut its April milk price by 1c/L (VAT inclusive) and pay its supplieres 29.5c/L.

Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin has called for production in meat plants to halted for a deep clean, while waiting for Covid-19 results of workers.

Cuisine de France owner Aryzta has hired Rothschild to advise it in a move that suggest no option including a sale or radical restructuring is off the table.