Agri Politics
MEPs vote for Commission to tackle unfair trading practices
MEPs in Brussels have today voted for the European Commission to put forward proposals against unfair trading practices in the food...
Agri Politics
MEPs in Brussels have today voted for the European Commission to put forward proposals against unfair trading practices in the food...
Agri Politics
Ireland produced only 0.6% of the EU’s potatoes (in 2014), new figures released on the potato sector from Eurostat show....
Environment
Glyphosate is an active substance used for the production of pesticides, which has been authorised in the EU since 2002...
Agri Politics
New Polish land laws have come into effect meaning that if you wanted to buy some agricultural land in the eastern...
Agri Politics
Brexit is a gamble that Britain cannot afford to take Lord Alan Sugar of the TV show The Apprentice has said...
Agri Politics
EU Member States have been asked to vote again on glyphosate’s re-authorisation on Monday, June 6, in Brussels, following last...
Rural Life
Ireland has one of the highest shares of people living in rural areas of almost any other EU country, figures...
Beef
Matt Carthy, the Sinn Féin MEP, has reiterated his calls for the suspension of negotiation on the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement....
Agri Politics
With one month to go until the June 30 deadline for a decision on re-authorising glyphosate, discussions are still on-going...
Dairy
The Commissioner for Agriculture, Phil Hogan, is “completely wrong” in attempting to make farmers responsible for the dairy farmer income...
Tillage
The current prospects for EU-28 yields are above the five-year average with the latest forecast from MARS, the EU Crop Monitoring...
Dairy
Sales of Skimmed Milk Powder (SMP) into intervention has reached 216,791t since the start of the year and is now...
Agri Politics
EU agri-food exports to third countries in March 2016 were worth €11.3 billion, which the European Commission has said is...
Dairy
A leading Russian commentator on dairy markets has said that the Russian ban on EU foods is likely to remain...
Dairy
Earlier this year, the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Phil Hogan announced a second package of exceptional measures to try and...
Dairy
The European Commission will look at skim milk powder intervention ceilings in the coming days, after 22,000t of skim milk...
Dairy
The Department of Agriculture has commissioned a report into the feasibility of providing loans of up to €15,000 to struggling...
Environment
A vote was not held today in Brussels on the re-authorisation of glyphosate as the European Commission said that it...