Agri-Business
DAFM: No fixed payment notices issued for tagging offences
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has confirmed that no fixed payment notices (FPN) have been issued...
Beef News
Forestry
Farm Focus: Organic Dexters, pigs and tillage in Slane
By Barbara Collins Alex and Carina Coyningham have been running Rock Farm in Slane for 12 years now. Many will...
Beef
Liffey Meats outlook on Irish beef sales to Chinese market
The Irish-based beef processing firm Liffey Meats was in attendance at SIAL Shanghai recently as part of the Bord Bia...
Beef
Kingbull-sired heifer takes top price at Gerrygullinane sale
The Gerrygullinane Production Sale took place via timed auction last weekend from Friday, May 26 to Monday, May 29. The...
Beef
Change in perception of grass-fed beef in China
There is a growing awareness about the benefits of grass-fed beef among consumers in the Chinese market, according to Bord...
Beef
ABP Demo Farm: GreenFeed, reseeds and average weights
All 2022-born cattle have been at grass for at least eight weeks on the ABP Demo Farm and are thriving...
Agri-Business
Minister formally announces €43m genotyping programme
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has today (Wednesday, May 31) announced funding for a “major and...
Beef
2,500 bulls, heifers and steers set sail from Ireland to Israel
A consignment of approximately 2,500 Irish cattle have been loaded on to a livestock vessel and have departed for Israel...
Beef
Factory quotes: Lower quotes hold but higher prices ease
This week’s factory quotes sees the lower prices quoted for beef last week remaining at the same level, with some...
Agri-Business
IED: EU parliament agriculture and environment committees split
Two key committees of the European Parliament have demonstrated significantly different approaches and views on the proposed expansion of the...
Beef
Tipp dairy farmers producing Advantage-spec beef calves
Farming between the Knockmealdown and Galtee Mountains, brothers David and John O’Gorman are dairy farmers in the process of integrating...
Agri-Business
Meat consumption in China to grow by 28 million tonnes
The demand for meat in China has been forecast to grow by 28 million tonnes by 2033, according to research...
Beef
Table: County-by-county SCEP application breakdown
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has given a county-by-county breakdown of the number of farmers that...
Beef
MII boss shares views on Irish meat exports to China
The director of Meat Industry Ireland (MII), Dale Crammond, has said it is going to take time before Irish beef...
Beef
Summer Beef series: Ideal sward type for starting calves on grass
Summer Beef series is in conjunction with Teagasc’s DairyBeef 500 campaign The busy calf-rearing period has come to an end on the...
Pig/Poultry
CSO: Pig slaughterings down 19.7% from last year
The number of pig slaughterings in April was 19.7% lower than the same month last year, according to the Central...
Beef
New series to focus on calf-to-beef management advice
Summer management practices for calf-to-beef systems will be discussed in the new Summer Beef series, brought to you by Agriland...
Agri-Business
Agri-Food Regulator legislation described as 'too weak'
The legislation relating to the establishment of an Agri-Food Regulator in this country has been described as ‘too weak’ by...
