Agri-Business
Co-op directors: 'Only about 10 women - out of a pool of 500'
Additional reporting by Maeve Keane Irish cooperatives have got to address serious imbalances in gender and age profile on boards,...
Agri-Business
Additional reporting by Maeve Keane Irish cooperatives have got to address serious imbalances in gender and age profile on boards,...
Agri Politics
Irish cooperatives have been urged to actively promote the use of protected urea and low protein meal on farms by...
Agri-Business
A number of small cooperatives could see greater representation at top level in Ornua, should a restructuring proposal be approved,...
Agri-Business
Following “piecemeal amendments” over the past 120 years, laws and regulations governing co-operative societies are set to be brought into...
Agri-Business
The importance of efficient risk management in Irish co-operatives was underlined at the 42nd Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS) National...
Dairy
Caution shown by milk processors and co-ops in holding milk prices for September have received a disappointed reaction from farming...
Dairy
Irish co-operatives and milk processors around the country have put various farmer supports in place to assist their suppliers as...
Opinion
Irish dairy farmers enjoyed a year of reasonable returns in 2017/18. And it looks like the coming 12 months could...
Grass
A total of 14 co-ops and importers have been approved by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine under...
Dairy
A potential merger between the north Kerry based Newtownsandes Co-op and North Cork Creameries has moved a step closer following...
Dairy
North Cork Co-operative Creameries of Kanturk, Co. Cork, and the Feale Bridge & Headley Bridge Co-operative from Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick,...
Opinion
After 18 months or so of battening down the hatches those new, post-quota entrants into Irish dairy are now seeing...
Dairy
Ahead of dairy processors announcing their milk prices for April supplies this week, and into next week, the IFA (Irish...
Rural Life
Irish farmers should not underestimate the power of their local co-ops nor take them for granted, the Canadian Ambassador to...
Dairy
IFA President Joe Healy has called on co-ops to budget for and inform farmers of, further milk price uplifts for August...
Dairy
Co-ops paying less than 23c/L of milk are “demonstrably underpaying” their farmer-suppliers, according to the ICMSA’s Gerald Quain. Against a...
Dairy
Dairy co-ops have agreed on a protocol to provide for the orderly transfer of milk suppliers, currently without Milk Supply...
Dairy
Much has been spoken about the 2014-2015 milk price crash, which has seen farmer returns fall by as much as...