Dairy
The 40-year journey: How one farmer progressed from manager to owner
Farming on the outskirts of Mallow, Co. Cork, John Fitzgerald mapped his transition from farm manager to owner at a...
Dairy
Farming on the outskirts of Mallow, Co. Cork, John Fitzgerald mapped his transition from farm manager to owner at a...
Dairy
There are many upsides to entering milk production in a post-quota Ireland. The milk price is good, meaning that a...
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
The 70-cow dairy herd will be below average, in terms of numbers in 10 years, but can it survive and...
Dairy
The underlying sentiment at a major dairy conference in London this week was not positive. Working under the banner of...
Dairy
Domestic milk intake by creameries and pasteurisers was estimated at 582.5 million litres for March 2016, according to latest figures...
Dairy
New EU environmental rules could see dairy farmers in Holland have to reduce the numbers of cows on their farms...
Opinion
There seems to be a significant disconnect within the dairy industry at the moment, as two of Ireland’s largest dairy...
Dairy
Milk suppliers to one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains must now have their cows at grass for at least...
Agri Politics
An investigation by New Zealand animal rights group SAFE has put the country’s dairy industry under the spotlight. SAFE is...
Dairy
At only 22 years of age and less than two years into his dairy farming career Aurivo supplier, Kevin Moran...
Dairy
New Zealand’s Central Bank has warned of excessive debt building up on dairy farms as farmers struggle with low prices....
Dairy
The importance of milk contracts to the dairy industry in the UK was highlighted by Welsh Agricultural Consultant Gareth Davies at...
Dairy
Dairy calf registrations since September are down 15%, according to latest stats from the ICBF. Since the week ending September...
Dairy
The country’s top prize for quality milk has been awarded to Kieran and Catherine O’Sullivan, from Dunmanus, Goleen, Co. Cork...
Dairy
Low-cost grass based dairy farming has the potential to create sustainable growth in rural Ireland, according to Nuffield scholar Sean Coughlan....
Dairy
It has been suggested recently that as a feed, pasture is more expensive than supplements, but DairyNZ developer Sean McCarthy disagrees...
Dairy
It’s been a long-held opinion among many that dairy farms in the West of Ireland can never compete with those...