Opinion
Creed’s response to calls for emergency tillage fund makes no sense
Agriculture Minister Michael Creed’s initial response to this week’s Dail debate on the tillage crisis facing farmers in the west...
Opinion
Agriculture Minister Michael Creed’s initial response to this week’s Dail debate on the tillage crisis facing farmers in the west...
Opinion
Both ICSA and ICMSA have taken a wholly unacceptable position, where farm safety is concerned. The past week has seen...
Opinion
I often get the impression that only a very small fraction of the invaluable advice put out into the public...
Dairy
ICMSA President John Comer is predicting an upturn in dairy prices over the coming months: let’s hope he’s right. It’s...
Opinion
January is fast approaching: so here’s a suggestion that might help those farmers who traditionally have problems coming up with...
Opinion
President-elect Donald Trump’s commitment to reverse the decision of the United States’ government in supporting the COP 21 agreement on global...
Opinion
This week saw both the top prizes on-offer at the Balmoral Winter Dairy Fair head south. The inter-breed champion is...
Opinion
The third line of the letter sent by the Revenue to 400 Kerry suppliers earlier this week makes for interesting...
Opinion
I sense that Irish meat factories will be forced to do some serious cosying up to the UK multiples this...
Opinion
Let me give you a ‘Nordy’ perspective on the operation of the cattle tag market in the Republic of Ireland:...
Opinion
Why should liquid milk producers be treated as a specialist stakeholder group within the dairy industry? Surely this approach to...
Opinion
It has been a good month for Irish agriculture; milk prices are on the up, the vast majority of farmers...
Opinion
The last few weeks have seen a litany of serious accidents taking place on Irish farms. Each one was a...
Opinion
Am I the only guy in Ireland who thinks that burdening production agriculture with more debt is a bad thing?...
Opinion
The Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed must make the call on behalf of Irish tillage farmers at next Monday’s Agricultural...
Opinion
Surely ICOS has the moral authority to help settle the row that has erupted within the membership of Newtownsandes’ Co-op...
Opinion
Seamus Heaney will long be remembered as one of Ireland’s greatest poets. But throughout his life he reflected at length...
Opinion
It strikes me that the European Commission has handed European dairy farmers a very effective means of countering future volatility...