Agri-Business
Promoting sustainable agriculture will require a renewed focus on and investment in information & communications technology
Beef
Farmers are still unable to opt out of “voluntary” levies when completing cattle tag order forms, despite the Department's intervention.
Unpasteurised raw milk is now legally for sale on Australian retails shelves following food regulatory approval.
Tillage
Danish researchers are developing an insect-dropping "eco-drone" that can drop ladybirds and predatory mites over organic crops.
The income of the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) reduced in 2015 while as its profits nearly doubled.
Environment
Ireland can no longer sustainably base its rural economy on endless expansion of the agricultural sector on current lines.
Remuneration for ICBF's ten most senior employees came to €938,508 last year, up from €889,879 in 2014, according to its 2015 Annual Report
Global food commodity markets are on a stable path for the year ahead,according to the UN Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO).
Dairy
For those who have always assumed milk's nutritional benefits come down to calcium, World Milk Day may have come at just the right time.
For 2016 World Food Day the FAO is asking for help to highlight how climate change is making the task of feeding the world more challenging.
Brexit has replaced fears of a global economic slowdown as the most significant danger to Irish economic growth.
Complaints about a joint venture between meat megalith Silver Fern Farms and Chinese company Shanghai Maling have been rejected.
German multinational chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer may this week increase its all-cash offer for Monsanto.
Rural Life
Have you ever wondered what life was like in rural Ireland in 1916?
Galway, Mayo, Donegal and Kerry were the leading recipients of payments for applications to the Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme in 2015.
Six regional farming ministers of the German green party have urged Chancellor Merkel to improve the lot of dairy farmers.
Macra na Feirme National President Seán Finan has led a delegation to meet with the new Minister for Agriculture and his officials in Dublin.
N.Ireland
The Ulster Farmers’ Union has welcomed the appointment of Michelle McIlveen as the North's new minister for Agriculture.
Contrary to the prevailing opinion in Irish agriculture, both Ireland and the EU are net importers of food energy.
Milk-based products are instrumental as sports rehydration drinks and in recovery from exercise-induced muscle damage.
Other
A national mobile phone and broadband taskforce is to be set-up, Minister and Roscommon T.D. Denis Naughten has announced.
Ibec has set out the policies the new Government needs to implement to support growth and job creation in the agri-food economy.
€5.4 million has been awarded under the 2016 Scheme of Investment Aid for the Development of the Commercial Horticulture Sector.
The new Minister for Agriculture is being urged to fast track the development of the dairy farm loan schemes.
