Kathleen Rowley

Farming anti-fraud campaign under way
Farming anti-fraud campaign under way

Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Michelle O’Neill has this week reminded the public of the existence of a fraud hotline...

Italian exports fall, highest decline since 2008
Italian exports fall, highest decline since 2008

A five per cent drop in the value of Irish food and drink exports to Italy  for the first 10...

CAP announcement highlights lack of fairness – Ó Cuív
CAP announcement highlights lack of fairness – Ó Cuív

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Agriculture, Éamon Ó Cuív TD, has expressed his disappointment at the unfair nature of yesterday’s Common...

Join the Bord Bia fellowship
Join the Bord Bia fellowship

Bord Bia has today announced that recruitment is under way to select 20 ambitious individuals to take part in a...

BBC TV presenter James Wong to talk plants at UCC
BBC TV presenter James Wong to talk plants at UCC

Popular BBC TV science presenter and botanist James Wong is to deliver a free, public talk at University College Cork...

No WMP special meeting on the cards
No WMP special meeting on the cards

A special general meeting (SGM) application of Wexford Milk Producers (WMP) has been rejected by the co-op’s board. More than...

Moynihan calls for urgent action to protect beef industry
Moynihan calls for urgent action to protect beef industry

Fianna Fáil TD Michael Moynihan, says Minister Simon Coveney must heed the warnings about the crisis in the beef sector....

Good uptake of new robust dairy cow breeding database
Good uptake of new robust dairy cow breeding database

Innovative and practical breeding tools for improved dairy products from more robust dairy cattle is the focus of a Europe-wide...

25,000 farming jobs created last year as agri-food exports jump 40% in four years
25,000 farming jobs created last year as agri-food exports jump 40% in four years

More than 58,000 jobs were created last year in Ireland and 25,000 of these were in farming. This is according...

China’s one-child policy shift, implications for the infant formula market
China’s one-child policy shift, implications for the infant formula market

Starting in early 2014, China will relax the current one-child policy. China’s family planning laws, first introduced in the 1970s,...

ABP expands in Poland with acquisition of second production site
ABP expands in Poland with acquisition of second production site

ABP Food Group has expanded its operations in Poland with the acquisition of a second production facility in Klosowice, Western...

Vive la France, Irish food trade reception under way in Paris
Vive la France, Irish food trade reception under way in Paris

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Tom Hayes, welcomed representatives from major French retailers and the food-service industry...

Teagasc links in with open access portal
Teagasc links in with open access portal

T-Stór, the Teagasc Open Access Repository, has been included in RIAN, the national open access portal that aims to make...

IFA, Pieta House launch rural suicide helpline supports
IFA, Pieta House launch rural suicide helpline supports

Speaking at the new Pieta House West centre in Tuam, Co Galway at the launch of the Irish Farmers Association...

Free range turkey sellout
Free range turkey sellout

With turkeys eaten by 94 per cent of Irish people around Christmas, free range artisan poultry farmers, Bertram and Celine...

And may all your Christmases be green and yellow
And may all your Christmases be green and yellow

If you’re already dreaming of a white Christmas, why not inject a bit of colour with John Deere’s latest seasonal...

Lilywhites’ scoop Glanbia grain award
Lilywhites’ scoop Glanbia grain award

Glanbia Agribusiness honoured its top-quality grain growers at an awards ceremony in Portlaoise today. Kildare tillage farmers Olwyn and Liam...

Research finds special wildlife scheme beats organic at boosting birds
Research finds special wildlife scheme beats organic at boosting birds

The View from the UK: Threatened farmland birds are likely to survive the winter better on conventional farms with specially...