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Achieving success in growing energy crops on Irish farms is at a cross-roads. While the significant potential for expansion exists,...
Rural Life
Farm Relief Services (FRS) has just gone live with a new innovative Mobile Herd Manager that enables farmers to register...
A sheep collar in-built pulse monitor, which sends a VHF signal to a GSM receiver that texts a farmer when...
Agri-Business
The European Commission welcomes today’s European Parliament vote on its proposal to update the trade regime for processed agricultural products (PAPs)....
Top-level meetings between the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) and Irish dairy co-ops are ongoing as the farm community looks post...
A new call has been made for research proposals under the Department of Agriculture’s three competitive research funding programmes –...
Precision farming technology that will allow reduced herbicide use by accurately identifying and spot-spraying weeds, developed from research funded by...
The improvement in weather and ground conditions has been welcomed by Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, but he also warned...
There are new things on the horizon of health and disease recording at the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF). According...
Ireland’s forestry programme for 2014-2020 is to be evaluated. The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the...
“We are a small company with big ideas for growth in the UK – how can we be successful? The...
Prospects for the 2014 harvests are good as the winter climatic conditions have been broadly favourable so far, according to the...
The agriculture sector continues to comprise the largest share of gross new SME lending, with more than €173m lent out...
Speaking recently on the bureaucratic burden that has been place on farmers in recent decades Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney,...
“Good progress has been made by the end of the first year of the compulsory phase of the BVD eradication...
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine was yesterday told that urgent collective action was required stem...
Beef
“Meat processors are manipulating the market. They have effectively usurped the Bord Bia quality assurance scheme and together with UK...
Glanbia Ingredients Ireland Limited (GIIL) is set to embrace and strengthen its digital strategy over the next 12 months as...
