Agri-Business
Forestry
Urgent review of forestry strategy needed to meet targets – MEP
Agri-Business
€800,000 in funding for 6 agri-research projects – Heydon
Machinery
Machinery: Tractor registrations see decrease of 13% on 2023
Agri Politics
Macra: Focus must shift from dairy exit scheme to succession
Podcast
Listen: AgriFocus – Weather and tillage with Teagasc’s Michael Hennessy
In this episode Francess McDonnell asks the head of crops knowledge transfer with Teagasc, Michael Hennessy, what is the immediate…
CAP / Schemes
Almost 1,600 BISS and ANC scheme payments outstanding
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is still processing 661 applications made under the 2023 Basic Income…
Opinion
Opinion: Staying safe must always remain farmers’ top priority
Irish Grain Growers’ Group (IGGG) chair, Bobby Miller, has emphasised that staying safe must always be a priority for farmers….
Agri-Business
Tirlán base milk price up 1c/L for March supplies
The base price for milk supplied to Tirlán for March will be 39.58c/L, including VAT, the processor said today (Thursday,…
Rural Life
TD raises issue on tax relief for wind energy
Fine Gael TD Alan Farrell has raised a tax relief issue for landowners who have leased their land for the…
Dairy
Farmers ‘led up the garden path’ on dairy exit scheme – ICMSA
The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers’ Association (ICMSA) has claimed that farmers have been “led up the garden path” on a…
Dairy
Turnover fell at Arrabawn Co-op in 2023 but operating profit rose
Arrabawn Co-op has reported a 20% drop in turnover from €505 million in 2022 to €403 million in 2023, latest…
Rural Life
Over €9m drawn down for rural group water scheme in 2023
There was €9,575,863 drawn down for group water scheme-related projects under the multi-annual rural programme in 2023, according to a…
Rural Life
Excise duty must be paid if agri-diesel brought in from NI – Revenue
Revenue is advising farmers that if they bring a quantity of agri-diesel from the north to the south – that…
Rural Life
‘Take a Break with Ballybar’ at coffee morning for farmers
Country lifestyle brand, Ballybar, are hosting a coffee morning on Saturday, April 20 from 11:00a.m at the Coppenagh House farm…
Agri-Business
Arrabawn introduces supplier input support for March milk
The board of Arrabawn has today (Thursday, April 18), announced its milk price for March supplies, and introduced a supplier…
Sheep
‘No problem’ for farmers to collect cheques at Kildare Chilling
Kildare Chilling has said there “is no problem” issuing cheques to farmers after some farmers claimed they had experienced a…
Agri Politics
McConalogue meets UK counterpart on bilateral trade
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has met with his UK counterpart in London to discuss matters…