Beef
Momentum grows for switch from beef to dairy
Teagasc advisors in the midlands have confirmed a growing push by drystock farmers to switch to dairy. “The momentum to get into...
Beef
Teagasc advisors in the midlands have confirmed a growing push by drystock farmers to switch to dairy. “The momentum to get into...
Beef
Ireland is only the second country in the world to have over one million cattle with a valid genotype, according...
Beef
Some participants in the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) were recently left confused after receiving letters stating that they...
Agri Politics
American beef exports to China are set to resume again after a 14-year absence, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)...
Dairy
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine’s Animal Identification and Movement System (AIM) recorded over three million cattle movements in 2016....
Opinion
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has always seen itself as the political organisation with the true interests of agriculture in Northern...
Agri Politics
Brazilian beef exports were reportedly down 8% – almost 24,000t – to 264,000t in the first quarter of 2017, according to a...
Beef
Cattle enterprises are, by far, the most popular across the country. Of the 83,377 farms represented by the Teagasc National...
Beef
By Catherine Hurley, Agricultural Science student at University College Dublin I arrived in Londrina, Brazil, on May 5 for six...
Beef
Increases in support payments led to higher suckler farm income figures in 2016, which otherwise would not have been the...
N.Ireland
Co. Antrim dairy farmer Gareth Hayes believes that diversification can help dairy farmers cope with the challenge of volatile milk...
N.Ireland
Coleraine-based WD Meats hosted a ‘walk-the-line’ event for farmer-suppliers this week. The demonstration, which allowed the visitors to assess cattle...
N.Ireland
Best-practice guidelines for beef and sheep farmers during the month of June have been released by the Department of Agriculture,...
N.Ireland
Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC) Chief Executive Ian Stevenson has welcomed the attainment of BSE Negligible Risk Status for Northern...
Agri-Business
UCD Professor Patrick Wall believes that the only way to achieve minimum use of antibiotics is to have healthier livestock....
Beef
Antibiotics will be required on an ongoing basis within Irish agriculture, according to MSD Animal Health Director Fergal Morris. “But...
Opinion
I feel it is safe to say that vegans would not have survived had they been around a few thousand years...
Beef
Spanish police have arrested and charged 14 people with fraud, and breaching consumer rights, following accusations that a Spanish meat company...