Agri Politics
Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney have two different ideas about how to help Northern Ireland through the shock of Brexit
Agri-Business
The new chair of ICMSA Dairy Committee has called for a stabilizing mechanism to be introduced for the post-quota EU milk market
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Simon Coveney, has called for immediate clarification on how a €500 million aid package for European farmers will be distributed between Member States.
Beef
Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney may well push to have a number of key recommendations agreed at the next meeting of the Beef Roundtable
Agriculture minister Simon Coveney dropped the ball in failing to secure a fair price deal for farmers, according to Eamon O Cuiv.
Macra na Feírme wants Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney to introduce the proposed collaborative farming scheme immediately
Fianna Fail will launch its new farming policy document at this year’s Ploughing Match, according to the party’s agriculture spokesman Eamon O Cuiv.
Irish feed compounders are deeply upset at Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney’s inference that contaminated feed may be implicated in the current BSE scare
The suspected case of BSE in a Rotbunt dairy cow will, almost certainly, be declared positive next week, according to Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney
ICSA will meet representatives from ICBF and the Department of Agriculture to discuss the out workings of the Beef Data and Genomics Programme
Opinion
Lakeland Dairies’ CEO Michael Hanley is, quite rightly, calling for dairy intervention prices to be increased with immediate effect.
The Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney set out his stall for the rest of his term in recent days.
Ireland’s Rural Development Programme (RDP) may not be approved until March according to the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney.
Environment
Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney is being called on to open the new Green Low Carbon Agrienvironmental Scheme (GLAS) ahead of formal agreement at European level of Ireland's Rural Development plans.
The Minister Agriculture Simon Coveney has said he does not intend to prohibit the ownership of feed lots by processors
A new handbook on social farming launched today by Ministers Simon Coveney and Ann Phelan aims to improve health and support farm diversification.
Dairy
Environmental claims made by Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney in regard to Dairy Expansion have been slammed as "inaccurate and misleading" by An Taisce.
