Agri-Business
Eurostat: EU agricultural prices down in Q1 2024
Agricultural prices in the European Union for both outputs and inputs not related to investment declined in the first quarter...
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Forestry
Farmers accounted for 47% of afforestation in 2023 - CSO
The area of new forestry planted by farmers accounted for 47% of total afforestation in 2023, according to the Central...
Agri-Business
90% of DAFM suppliers paid within 15 days of issuing invoice
The Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM) paid 90% of its suppliers within 15 days in the first quarter...
Agri-Business
Sharing data on farming activity with EPA 'hugely important'
Sharing data on farming activities with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is “hugely important”, the director of the Office of...
Agri-Business
CSO: Cork has highest number of registered septic tanks
Cork was the county with the highest number of registered domestic waste water treatment systems (septic tanks) at 56,281 in...
Agri-Business
CSO: Consumers pay 10c less for milk than last year
The national average price for two litres of full fat milk decreased by 10c to €2.18 in the year up...
Dairy Technical
Milk recording: Is it time to complete the first of 2024?
Milk recordings are a useful tool used by dairy farmers for understanding and keeping control of cell counts on farms....
Dairy Technical
Dairy advice: Complete an early milk recording
The importance of milk recording is not lost on many dairy farms, but there are still a large number of...
Rural Life
Research programme using AI for weather and climate services
Met Éireann and University College Dublin (UCD) have launched a new research programme using artificial intelligence (AI) and data science...
Rural Life
Council of EU ministers adopts new farm data network
The Council of the EU has given its final green light to the proposed new Farm Sustainability Data Network (FSDN)....
Agri-Business
DAFM will not share farmer vet medicine data without 'engagement'
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has said that farmer data from the new National Veterinary Prescription...
Rural Life
EU farm sustainability database moves closer
The new EU Farm Sustainability Data Network (FSDN) has moved one step closer, with a provisional agreement between the Council...
Agri-Business
DAFM planning to share data on turf cutting rights
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is proposing to enter into a data sharing agreement with the...
Agri-Business
Farm data: Call for proper regulation amid proposed changes
Following a vote last week in the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture in relation to farm data, the umbrella group...
Rural Life
Deadline to collect Census of Agriculture is mid-September - CSO
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) is collecting the Census of Agriculture 2020 in September. This information was first gathered in...
Rural Life
Low-flying aircraft to resume scanning land over Munster
As part of a nationwide programme of the Geological Survey Ireland, The Tellus Survey is resuming its flights for 2019...
Agri-Business
Sheep Ireland outlines 'robust' data collection system
Sheep Ireland has defended its methods of data collection for its €uroStars rating system and its evaluations. Last week Irish...