Environment
Major players in the oil and gas industry have this week agreed to report methane emissions with a new, higher level of transparency.
Agri Politics
Newly appointed MEP, Colm Markey, has said that any environmental changes that will affect farmers in Ireland have to be "incentive-based".
Opinion
Under pressure from food scandals abroad, international trade deals, multinational processors, our own beef sector is being undermined.
Dairy
EU Commission refuses all prices offered at the latest skimmed milk powder (SMP) intervention tender event
Agri-Business
An increased budget of €133m has been allocated for 2017 to promote EU agri products outside and inside the EU and to continue finding new markets.
The European Commission is making steady progress in the ongoing TTIP negotiations,the Commission's spokesperson has said.
There has been a drop in the volumes of skimmed milk powder (SMP) Member States are offering to the public intervention system.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has appointed Michel Barnier as Chief Negotiator in charge Brexit
Hopes for additional supports from the EU for dairy farmers have been dampened by the European Agriculture Commissioner, Phil Hogan.
Reports in Brussels suggest the European Commission will propose that the commonly used glyphosate be re-approved for nine years.
Ireland currently has some 19,357t of butter in the European Unions Aids to Private Storage Scheme, according to latest figures from the Milk Market Observatory.
New proposals to lessen the cost of organic certification for small scale producers form part of an EU Commission regulation on organic production and labelling according to Mairead McGuinness, Fine Gael MEP.
The price paid to producers for putting milk into public intervention stores barely covers 60% of dairy production costs
Simplification of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a key first priority for EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Phil Hogan.
Concerns were expressed by EU Agriculture Ministers at this weeks council meeting over the EU Commission proposal to cut support in the EU agriculture sector in the 2015 budget.
European Ministers for Agriculture will discuss issues facing young farmers at a Council meeting in Brussels today.
Phil Hogan – Commissioner-designate had to answer a number of difficult questions during his hearing by the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture
ICSA president Patrick Kent has welcomed reports that EU Agriculture commissioner-designate Phil Hogan will give serious consideration to the appointment of a Food Ombudsman
Ireland’s European commissioner-designate Phil Hogan has won the support of over 70% of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee to become the next EU agriculture commissioner.
EU Agriculture Commissioner Designate Phil Hogan has told Agriland that he will give strong consideration to the appointment of a Food Ombudsman as a way of ensuring a better balance within Europe’s agri food chain.
EU Agriculture Commissioner designate Phil Hogan dealt decisively with the issues put to him by Irish MEPs Matt Carthy (Sinn Féin) and Luke Ming Flanagan (Independent) during his question and answer session with members of the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee in Brussels to day.
Farm Commissioner Designate Phil Hogan has told members of the EU Parliament that he will take a very close interest in the trading practises followed by Europe’s leading food retailers over the coming years.
EU Farm Commissioner designate Phil Hogan was up early this morning, ready for his ‘hearing’ with the members of the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee.
