94% of young farmer participants consider agricultural cooperatives important for the future of Irish farming, according to a new study on the subject.…
Additional reporting by Maeve Keane Irish cooperatives have got to address serious imbalances in gender and age profile on boards, with approximately just…
A number of small cooperatives could see greater representation at top level in Ornua, should a restructuring proposal be approved, AgriLand understands. The…
Following “piecemeal amendments” over the past 120 years, laws and regulations governing co-operative societies are set to be brought into the 21st century…
The importance of efficient risk management in Irish co-operatives was underlined at the 42nd Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS) National Conference earlier today…
Caution shown by milk processors and co-ops in holding milk prices for September have received a disappointed reaction from farming organisations. The dairy…
Irish co-operatives and milk processors around the country have put various farmer supports in place to assist their suppliers as current drought conditions…
North Cork Co-operative Creameries of Kanturk, Co. Cork, and the Feale Bridge & Headley Bridge Co-operative from Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick, are to merge…
Co-ops paying less than 23c/L of milk are “demonstrably underpaying” their farmer-suppliers, according to the ICMSA’s Gerald Quain. Against a background where Co-ops…
Dairy co-ops have agreed on a protocol to provide for the orderly transfer of milk suppliers, currently without Milk Supply Agreements, between Co-ops,…
