Agri-Business
Promoting sustainable agriculture through information and communications technology will require a renewed focus on innovation and investment in research, technology...
Beef
In spite of a Department of Agriculture intervention in May, farmers are still unable to opt out of ‘voluntary’ levies when...
As unpasteurised raw milk in Australia gets the green light from food safety authorities there, Irish government officials may be...
Tillage
Danish researchers are developing a drone for organic farms, which can drop ladybirds and predatory mites onto crops. According to...
The income of the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) reduced in 2015 while its profits nearly doubled. Last year, 79,000...
Environment
The Director of Friends of the Earth (Ireland) has said that Ireland can no longer sustainably base its rural economy...
Remuneration for ICBF’s 10 most senior employees came to €938,508 last year, up from €889,879 in 2014, according to its 2015...
Global food commodity markets are on a stable path for the year ahead,according to the UN Food & Agricultural Organisation...
Dairy
For those who have always assumed milk’s nutritional benefits come down to calcium, World Milk Day on June 1 may...
For 2016 World Food Day the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) is asking the world’s children to help it...
Brexit has replaced fears of a global economic slowdown as the most significant danger to Irish economic growth, a market...
Complaints by a New Zealand political party about a joint venture between meat megalith Silver Fern Farms and Chinese company...
German multinational chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer may this week increase its all-cash offer for Monsanto. It is reported that...
Rural Life
Have you ever wondered what life was like in rural Ireland in 1916? On Friday 10th and Saturday, June 11,...
Galway, Mayo, Donegal and Kerry were the leading recipients of payments for applications to the Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme in...
Six regional farming ministers of the German green party have written an open letter to Chancellor Merkel urging her to...
Macra na Feirme National President Seán Finan has led a delegation to meet with the new Minister for Agriculture and...
N.Ireland
The Ulster Farmers’ Union has welcomed the appointment of Michelle McIlveen as the minister at the new Department of Agriculture,...
