Beef
First 200 days key to suckled calf performance
Good calf performance, along with the control of costs, is critical in achieving a positive net margin from the suckler...
Beef
Good calf performance, along with the control of costs, is critical in achieving a positive net margin from the suckler...
Beef
The President of ICMSA, John Comer, has criticised those he says are ‘merging and confusing’ the role of Bord Bia’s...
Beef
The Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney today launched a public consultation seeking the views of stakeholders on legislating for the...
Agri Politics
Speaking in the Agriculture & Rural Development committee in the European Parliament recently, Ireland Midlands and West MEP Luke Ming...
Beef
Latest reports from United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows that the national cattle herd has declined 3% since mid-2012...
Beef
Disgruntled ‘grassroot’ beef farmers in Co. Meath are challenging the IFA on its handling of the beef crisis and are...
Beef
[show-rjqc id=”14″] Latest figures from the Department of Agriculture show that the weekly beef kill continues to slide. At 27,940,...
Beef
Despite having gross margins of almost double the national average, Kilkenny farmer James Grace says his greatest concern centres around...
Opinion
I had the good fortune to travel from Dublin to Zurich with Swissair recently. From the time you get on...
Beef
The French beef market so far in 2014 has been under considerable pressure from lower consumer demand, as the French...
Beef
Successive price cutting by meat factories over the past 12 months has cost Irish beef farmers a cumulative €168 million according...
Beef
The Beef Summit won’t provide the solutions beef farmers need, according to Eamon O Cuiv. The Fianna Fail spokesman on...
Beef
Irish Cattle and Sheep Association (ICSA) General Secretary Eddie Punch has told Agriland that he remains open minded as to...
Beef
According to the European Commission’s latest figures Ireland is unchanged in eight position on the EU deadweight cattle price league...
Beef
Beef finishing enterprises, on average, generated a negative net margin of -€133 per hectare in 2013. This loss per hectare is...
Opinion
The days are over when calling farmers out on to the streets serves any useful purpose. At one level, the...
Agri-Business
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Simon Coveney met with the Northern Agriculture Ministers Michelle O’Neill MLA Dublin...
Beef
Last week saw the lowest weekly beef kill recorded in 11 months according to latest figures from the Department of...