Sheep
'Lamb prices hit €6.20/kg'
Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) Sheep Committee chairman Sean Dennehy has confirmed that factories are offering up to €6.20 per kilo...
Sheep
Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) Sheep Committee chairman Sean Dennehy has confirmed that factories are offering up to €6.20 per kilo...
Opinion
Whatever the plants are paying for Easter lamb this year, I can say with total confidence that it will not...
Agri Politics
The EU’s much anticipated White Paper that will guide Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform post-2020 will concentrate heavily on desire...
Agri-Business
There is room for further improvement to the Land Parcel Identification Systems used by Member States, a key control mechanism...
N.Ireland
So far advance CAP payments, which began on October 17, have reached 90.72% of eligible farmers in Northern Ireland, the Minister...
Agri-Business
There is no provision made for an emergency tillage fund in the EU’s draft budget for 2017, according to Sinn...
CAP / Schemes
The European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Hogan, outlined a number of ways that he plans to simplify...
CAP / Schemes
European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Hogan, has confirmed that he will be coming forward with CAP reform...
CAP / Schemes
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will continue to have first preference on funding available under the European Union’s Agriculture Budget....
CAP / Schemes
Sinn Fein MEP Matt Cathy has said that 30% of all European farmers would cease farming if direct payments were...
Agri-Business
The current mechanism of subsidising EU agriculture via grants and schemes could soon become a thing of the past. Speaking...
Agri-Business
Two leading UK politicians have promised that UK farmers will continue to receive farm subsidies until at least 2020. The...
N.Ireland
Minimising disruption to existing trade relationships between North and south and maintaining support to farmers are among the priorities the...
N.Ireland
CAP Pillar I funds for farmers in Northern Ireland will not be reduced to fund future support to Areas of Natural...
CAP / Schemes
The programme for Government agreed between Fine Gael and a host of Independent TD’s has set out to reduce the...
Agri-Business
IFA this week met with the EU Commission in Brussels to discuss the new rules on simplification of the CAP...
N.Ireland
Some 95% of payments to eligible applicants under the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) schemes were made to farmers in the...
Environment
Agricultural accounts for 10% of total greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union, according to the European Commissioner for Agriculture...