Opinion
Climate smart agriculture is the future
At long last the United States has signed up to a binding international agreement, ensuring that it carries an equitable...
Opinion
At long last the United States has signed up to a binding international agreement, ensuring that it carries an equitable...
Opinion
The recent success of the commonage protesters should be celebrated in every farming household throughout Ireland. It represents one of those rare...
Opinion
Next Spring will see Irish farmers complete their first round of applications for the new Single Payment Scheme (SPS). Let’s...
Opinion
Meat Industry Ireland (MII) has laid the blame for the current beef crisis firmly at the door of beef farmers....
Opinion
The days are over when farmers could take or leave the option of using digital technology. Increasingly, government agencies around...
Opinion
The mystery of how British prime cattle prices rose by 4p-5p last week (w/e September 6) despite a 12% increase...
Dairy
Earlier this year a number of Ireland’s leading dairy co-ops – North and South – threw out the possibility of...
Opinion
Last week’s news of an ‘Aids to Private Storage’ support package for the dairy sector is a welcome development. But...
Beef
Surprise; surprise: 84% of those who participated in our most recent poll affirmed their belief that the collection of levies...
Opinion
This week’s aid package announcement by Brussels may well turn out to be a double-edged sword for the Irish dairy...
Opinion
The latest figures from the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine show that cattle supplies at export meat plants...
Opinion
Anyone with either a current interest in dairy farming – or who intends getting involved in the sector – should...
Opinion
Courtesy of the presentation given by Teagasc’s James O’Loughlin, delegates attending this week’s Virginia Show Dairy Conference were left in...
Opinion
So far this year, 20 people have died in accidents on Irish farms. In 2011, 22 people died on farms. In...
Opinion
The anger at the IFA beef meeting in Navan was palpable from the outset and farmers began to leave in despair at...
Opinion
The Northern Minster for Agriculture Michelle O’Neill’s decision to seek a change to the EU beef labelling regulations, in the...
Opinion
I have noticed a growing annoyance in recent weeks among livestock farmers about the on-going situation within the beef industry....
Opinion
It’s great to see demand for third-level ag science qualifications growing throughout the island of Ireland. This, no doubt, reflects...