Farming

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A lot of people will throw oil prices and dairy prices on a graph together and argue that there is a strong connection.

RUSTLERS, the microwaveable snack brand owned by Kepak, has become a bigger seller than Mars bars or PG Tips in Britain, according to industry bible 'The Grocer'.

Following an intense series of discussions between ICOS and the Department of Agriculture, Food and The Marine, marts will be allowed to handle livestock trading in a limited way.

More than 70,000 farmers will gain from a full flattening of CAP payments to €265/ha, an analysis of 2019 entitlements shows.

The signing of wills can now be witnessed by solicitors through the windows of clients' homes and their cars, as the legal profession responds to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dairy farmers may be faced with a stark choice of cutting output or dumping milk as processors fear the Covid-19 outbreak could significantly hinder processing capacity.

Reseeding by conventional means is difficult at the best of times, so imagine doing it without the aid of chemical fertiliser or pre- and post-emergence spray.

Before we look at the specifics of farming, it's important to know your rights as a consumer in everyday dealings. On a basic level, you are a 'consumer' for the...

Factory prices for sheep have slammed onto the floor, with quotes from the two ICM plants and Dawn Ballyhaunis for hogget and new-season lamb back by 60c/kg.

The message that has been peddled by supermarkets for years to consumers is of ever-cheaper food. It's a dangerous message.

Farmers and food producers are facing a financial crisis as prices and markets continue to collapse due to the impact of the Covid-19 emergency.

The farm sector moved into the front line of the Covid-19 battle this week, with the Department of Agriculture's laboratories at Backweston near Celbridge now testing for the deadly virus.

Like many people, I am experiencing feelings of confusion, fear and panic. Yet I also feel huge gratitude for my health and well-being when so many people are suffering.

It's difficult to know when the current coronavirus situation will end, even when there will be an end in sight, and the impact on farm prices is already beginning to...

Meat factory workers are voicing concerns about safety in the workplace during the Covid-19 crisis, complaining that employers are not doing enough to minimise exposure to the virus.

A fundamental shift in dairy breeding policy away from Jerseys to dual-purpose breeds such as British Friesian, Fleckvieh or Montbéliarde is required to create a sustainable outlet for excess calves...

Silence is the one thing I never expect to hear at a mart.

Demand for bagged and bulk feed is running 15-20pc ahead of normal since the start of March due to a combination of the heavy rainfall, poor grass growth and the...

A creeping sense of dread is all around us. While farmers joke that they've been practising physical distancing and self-isolation all their working lives, after nearly three weeks the gags...

Sterling skidded lower against the dollar on Monday, as the greenback reasserted itself as a safe haven for investors amid the coronavirus pandemic and Britain's economic outlook took another hit...

LANDOWNERS who start gorse fires to clear scrubland have been warned their actions are putting a strain on fire brigades and emergency services already stretched because of the Covid-19 crisis.

A SCHOOLBOY who had to give up sport after becoming paralysed at the age of 16 can now go fly-fishing after an engineer made a robotic arm which helps him...

There was expected to be keen interest in a big clearout auction of tractors and machinery from Bord na Móna's Derrygreenagh site in Offaly over the weekend, but like so...

A 59ac parcel of grazing ground at Kilkennybeg, Killenaule, Co Tipperary, sold recently under the direction of Pat Quirke of PF Quirke, making €550,000 or over €9,000/ac.

As the public health measures intensify it is natural to focus on the figures for confirmed cases, hospital admissions and, tragically, fatalities. But the epidemic will end, the measures will...

Irish food producers are facing a major crisis with the closure of lucrative markets worth hundreds of millions to the sector, Bord Bia has warned.

The private treaty sale of a 160ac West Limerick farm on the outskirts of Newcastlewest and not far from Castlemahon, caused me to drift down memory lane to a time...

A multi-award winning dairy on the Laois/Carlow border gladly distributed its milk for free to households rather than see it wasted due to Covid-19.

The highest court in Europe has ruled that proceeds of crime legislation, used to confiscate illegally obtained assets, is lawful.

The government last night published list of "essential" workers after a day of confusion over who is exempt from unprecedented restrictions on movement due to the coronavirus crisis.

Orders from retailers to one of the country's biggest fresh food growers and suppliers, Country Crest, are currently as much as 30pc ahead of normal.

Farming is exempt from the two-week lockdown announced by the Government last night.

Aisling and Andrew Chapman began to notice more and more tourists stopping to take in the stunning scenery around their beef farm on the Wild Atlantic Way, and it dawned...

Life constantly throws up challenges but we have never seen the likes of those being presented by Covid 19.

The aim over the coming weeks and months is to try and "avoid closures" but Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) chief executive Brian Kavanagh admitted that he is "very worried" about...

It would be consoling to imagine an antidote to all the uncertainty, or an early end to the anxiety.

Around 60 workers refused to start work at a Dungannon food company on Friday due to their concerns over social distancing..

IRELAND'S first charitable community air ambulance will be indefinitely grounded from April after the Covid-19 crisis wiped out its entire fundraising base

Fresh fruit and vegetables will become increasingly scarce in Europe, suppliers warn, as the coronavirus pandemic hampers the global movement of produce and of the people needed to gather crops.