Dairy
Proposed €8,000 grant cut in new Dairy Equipment Scheme 'unacceptable', says ICMSA
Speaking following a meeting with senior officials of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Pat McCormack, Deputy President...
Dairy
Speaking following a meeting with senior officials of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Pat McCormack, Deputy President...
Beef
It has been confirmed that a voluntary beef label has been approved by the North’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development...
National Ploughing Championships
Hundreds of thousands of people, farmers and non-farmers, alike will visit the National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, this week. Nestled...
Beef
Beef processors do not have access to the Departments database of animal registrations or at least they’re not supposed to...
Opinion
The recent success of the commonage protesters should be celebrated in every farming household throughout Ireland. It represents one of those rare...
Agri Politics
The Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Simon Coveney confirmed that the proposed EU fine of the Department of...
Environment
The agreement reached between the Department of Agriculture and the Hill Farmers Action Group concerning access to the new GLAS...
Beef
Fianna Fáil agriculture spokesman Éamon Ó Cuív is calling on the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney to increase the inaugural...
Environment
Collective agreements, as a requirement for entry into the new GLAS scheme, have been scrapped, according to the Hill Farmer...
Opinion
The days are over when farmers could take or leave the option of using digital technology. Increasingly, government agencies around...
Agri Politics
US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has given the green light for a new Dairy Margin Protection Programme. This voluntary programme,...
Beef
According to latest figures from Animal Health Ireland, 1.61% or 1,234 herds have one or more BVD PI calves that...
Agri-Business
The Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney is being called on to utilise all EU TAMS funding by reopening TAMS for...
Environment
Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney must immediately clarify his new commonage rules and proceed immediately with public meetings and clinics...
Agri-Business
Innovation is the ability to think and act differently. Every successful business uses its innovative capacity to maximise results. The...
Beef
The Northern Ireland suckler herd is on the decline and that decline is likely to speed up according to an...
Environment
Hill farmers should not suffer because proposals in relation to the implementation of the new Rural Development Plan (RDP) are...
Environment
Details of the planned information meetings for commonage farmers to be hosted by his Department at a number of venues...