Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) updated the list of rates for farmers using their own machinery under TAMS 3.
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has published the updated reference costs for TAMS.
The cost of inputs for the horticulture sector has increased by an average of 51% over the past five years, according to a new report.
Agri Politics
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association (ICSA) said beef prices must continue to rise to reflect the soaring costs of production.
The value of milk grew by 16% to €4.1 billion in 2024 due to "little change in volumes", while milk prices increased by 17%, the CSO said.
Beef
The cost of rearing 100 calves to 12 weeks of age is close to €60,000, according to Teagasc DairyBeef 500 programme advisor Gordon Peppard.
The next few articles of this ABP series will focus on the key elements involved in order to rear a calf successfully and what calves beef...
Dairy
Keeping costs down is the driver of profitability for Cork dairy farmer Joe Deane who has built his way up in the dairy industry through...
Keeping costs down in 2025 is going to be the vital tool in improving farm profitability for the year and won't be an easy task considering..
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has said that total fertiliser sales have increased by almost 8.3% in a year.
EU organisations have sent an open letter to 'demand' the purchasing of prices below production cost be added to the UTP directive blacklist
Costs on dairy farms have increased by 12c/L on average over the past four years, according to Dr. Laurence Shalloo from Teagasc.
Global fertiliser demand will see little growth in 2024, while affordability is expected to decline, according to Rabobank.
Tillage
The CSO has revealed that the price of outputs for potato farmers have increased by 73.6% over the 12 months to April 2024.
Tillage production is limited to about 7% of the agricultural land base in Ireland, according to a new report published today
Rural Life
A Church of Ireland priest has called on rural communities to lend a listening ear and "love your neighbour" as wet weather continues.
Animal feed and fertiliser importers have been urged by an MLA to pass on any savings to farmers who are battling high prices.
2022 will be a challenging year for farming due to escalating costs, according to the president of the Irish Farmers' Association (IFA).
A massive rise in construction costs is "wiping out" farmer grants under the Targeted Agricultural...
The 2019 National Farm Survey preliminary results are less positive than one might think and must be examined, the IFA dairy chair says.
Machinery
As slurry season approaches AgriLand has been pricing the cost of spreading in different parts of the country.
Many beef farmers travelled to the Beef 2018 event in Teagasc Grange today to hear of possible avenues of increasing the profitability of their production systems.
Leave the plough in the shed and reduce your seed rate to make more money from oilseed rape. That was the main message from John Spink.
