Bernie Commins

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Bernie Commins has an honours degree in journalism from Dublin Institute of Technology. She previously worked in the world of agri media as editor of several industry publications and as a journalist she has covered a variety of topics from farm safety to rural-life matters. She also has a background in regional newspaper reporting. From south Tipperary originally, she spent her formative years on her uncle’s dairy farm.

Lakeland Dairies: June milk price rise and additional fixed-price payment
Lakeland Dairies: June milk price rise and additional fixed-price payment

Lakeland Dairies is the second processor out of the gates today (Monday, July 11) with an increased milk price for...

FAO raises its forecast for global cereal production
FAO raises its forecast for global cereal production

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO) forecast for global cereal production was raised by 7 million...

Gardaí appeal for witnesses following fatal car-jeep collision
Gardaí appeal for witnesses following fatal car-jeep collision

A road traffic accident (RTA) involving a collision between a jeep and a car in Co. Sligo has resulted in...

FAO report: Price drop in cereals but price rise in meat and dairy
FAO report: Price drop in cereals but price rise in meat and dairy

The barometer for world food commodity prices declined slightly in June for the third consecutive month, the Food and Agriculture...

FSAI recalls popular ice-cream due to presence of banned pesticide
FSAI recalls popular ice-cream due to presence of banned pesticide

The perfect weather for ice cream has arrived but the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) is recalling specific batches...

Tractor involved in single-vehicle incident
Tractor involved in single-vehicle incident

Gardaí were called to the scene of a single-vehicle incident involving a tractor in Dublin recently. The incident happened on...

Self-sustainable bakers working with the seasons and without carbon footprint
Self-sustainable bakers working with the seasons and without carbon footprint

A sunny southeast bakery that has recently celebrated one year in business is seeing its self-sustainability goal begin to bear...

IFA calls for catch-crops supports to bolster store lamb trade
IFA calls for catch-crops supports to bolster store lamb trade

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, is being called on to come forward with supports for farmers...

Find out how many tractors were licensed in June
Find out how many tractors were licensed in June

Last month, according to the Central Statistics Office (CSO), 187 new tractors were licensed for the first time – up...

Avian influenza: DAFM confirms 230,000 birds culled in disease-control plan
Avian influenza: DAFM confirms 230,000 birds culled in disease-control plan

A total of 85 wild-bird positives, across 16 counties, were detected for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) during a high-risk...

Record-high dairy prices but milk collection marginally down in EU
Record-high dairy prices but milk collection marginally down in EU

EU dairy prices are at record levels but farms’ margins remain tight; milk collection looks set to drop by 0.6%;...

Dairygold: ‘Cannot favour fixed-milk suppliers to the detriment’ of others
Dairygold: ‘Cannot favour fixed-milk suppliers to the detriment’ of others

Dairygold has told its farmer suppliers that it “continues to explore other support options” to assist those who may be...

Farmers ‘whose backs are to the wall’ will take North Cork’s new fixed-milk terms
Farmers ‘whose backs are to the wall’ will take North Cork’s new fixed-milk terms

A farmer supplier of North Cork Creameries has said that only those farmers who are in dire straits will accept...

Climate change is no storm in a teacup for producers and  industry
Climate change is no storm in a teacup for producers and industry

We Irish do love our tea; it is as much a staple as the humble spud. But is this the...

RSA appeal – stop using mobile phones while operating a vehicle
RSA appeal – stop using mobile phones while operating a vehicle

Almost one quarter of drivers check their mobile-phone notifications while driving, and 37% do not regularly practice safe mobile-phone-use behaviour,...

Minister called on to refuse hare-coursing licence application
Minister called on to refuse hare-coursing licence application

A number of calls have been made in the Dáil recently for the Irish Coursing Club’s hare-coursing licence application for the upcoming...

Emissions reduction ‘set at these levels will decimate farmers’ – Murphy
Emissions reduction ‘set at these levels will decimate farmers’ – Murphy

“If we do not turn the tide on the climate crisis in this generation, there will not be any agriculture...

Fixed-price contracts: ‘The farmer doesn’t always have to be the price taker’
Fixed-price contracts: ‘The farmer doesn’t always have to be the price taker’

Fixed milk-price contracts (FMPCs) have garnered a great deal of attention this year – and not for the positive. The...