Opinion
Yet another silage crisis confronts suckler farmers in the west
This week’s heavy rain and cold temperatures have, most definitely, drawn down the curtain on the 2017 silage season. In...
Opinion
This week’s heavy rain and cold temperatures have, most definitely, drawn down the curtain on the 2017 silage season. In...
Opinion
It is infuriating to hear so-called experts telling consumers that farm gate prices are, in some way, connected to food...
Opinion
A recent report, produced on behalf of the World Health Organisation, suggests that organic farming practices can feed the world....
Opinion
Michael Creed’s ongoing diplomatic charm offensive in Japan and South Korea follows on from the visit by his Agriculture, Food...
Opinion
I sense that Phil Hogan is about to do a Pontius Pilate impression and conveniently wash his hands of the...
Opinion
If ever Bord Bia needed to come up with an effective marketing campaign for the potato industry, this could well...
Opinion
There’s little doubt that a good beef dinner puts University College Dublin’s Prof. Patrick Wall in fine form. He gave...
Opinion
Irish consumers, north and south, are prepared to pay that little bit more for chicken that has been grown on...
Opinion
A Mercosur trade deal is only one of the threats facing the Irish livestock industry at the present time. The...
Opinion
The malsters’ treatment of their contracted barley growers is nothing short of scandalous. One would have thought that the difficult...
Opinion
Farmers and contractors will be working around the clock to get the grass silage season wrapped up over the coming...
Opinion
Thankfully, I do not suffer from shiny metal syndrome. But I fear that many Irish farmers have succumbed to this...
Opinion
It’s easy for pressure groups to cast aspersions on antimicrobial usage within livestock production systems. But the reality is that...
Opinion
Members of the European Parliament mustn’t give much consideration to the corn flakes they eat for breakfast each morning, given...
Opinion
Ophelia has come and gone, leaving a trail of weather-related destruction in her wake. Farmers are continuously told that they...
Opinion
Next April will see the introduction of a ‘Sugar Tax’, targeted at soft drink sales in Ireland. In my opinion...
Opinion
The calls from Glanbia to secure the use of portable generators on behalf of those milk producers affected by power...
N.Ireland
Ulster braced itself for the worst, but by the time Ophelia reached the northern counties she had lost much of...