Beef
Having second thoughts about the Genomics Programme? Here's how to exit
Over 27,000 farmers have applied to the Beef Data and Genomics Programme, which closed last Friday (June 5). However, farmers...
Beef
Over 27,000 farmers have applied to the Beef Data and Genomics Programme, which closed last Friday (June 5). However, farmers...
Environment
Farmers and meat processors need to be represented on the new Advisory Council on Climate Change, Independent MEP Marian Harkin...
Rural Life
The cost in making a will in Ireland can vary from €50 to €150, a nationwide survey of legal costs...
Beef
Two thirds of Irish beef farmers are over 50, according to a new report by AIB. It comes the same...
Beef
Only 1% of beef farmers would consider entering a farm partnership/collaborative farming initiative when they can no longer farm at...
Agri-Business
Three out of every 10 beef farmers admit that they experienced cash flow difficulties in 2013/14, according to an AIB report...
Beef
The majority of beef farmers are optimistic about the future, with 38% planning to make farm investments over the next...
Agri-Business
Some 40% of Irish farmers earn less than €10,000 from their farm, the latest figures from Teagasc show. It also...
Agri Politics
Farmers are consistently losing out because of the unequal balance of power between the large supermarket multiples and family farmers...
Environment
Some 870 farmers are still awaiting AEOS payments from 2014, as An Garda Siochana is investigating irregularities around the non...
Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture’s fine, from the European Commission, over inaccurate measurements through the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS), is...
Agri-Business
Farmers’ share of the price consumers pay for a kilo of beef has halved to 21% with the processors having fallen...
Tillage
The new requirements under the Sustainable use of Pesticide Directive (SUD) have been described as “excessive and outright ridiculous” by John Comer,...
Rural Life
Irish farmers on Twitter have been tweeting on average 95 times a year and 67% of Irish farmers are tweeting...
Environment
An overhead line is still the most effective and appropriate solution on the North-South 400kV Interconnection, Eirgrid says. Eirgrid recently published its...
Environment
Roscommon planner Seamus Cusack said there has been plenty of interest from farmers in his area in the GLAS scheme,...
Agri Politics
Figures provided to Mairead McGuinness, Member of European Parliament (MEP), show that the share farmers receive of the final price...
Tillage
The HGCA, a division of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), has released its spring 2015 edition of Grain Outlook....