Agri-Business
Funding of €330,000 for social farming and local food markets
A fund of €330,000 to support social farming operations and the local food and artisan markets initiative in rural areas has...
Agri-Business
A fund of €330,000 to support social farming operations and the local food and artisan markets initiative in rural areas has...
Sheep
Sheep throughput to factories for the week ending July 5, 2015 was down 3,100 head for the corresponding week last...
Beef
The number of animals in 2014 that tested positive for residues was down on the number tested in 2013, however some...
Beef
Last week the national beef kill reached 30,002 the first time it has been over 30,000 in nine weeks, figures...
Opinion
The vision for the agri-food sector, as outlined in Food Wise 2025, has outlined some very serious projections. It is...
Tillage
The spotlight will be on spring barley, winter barley and winter wheat varieties at the upcoming Irish Seed Trade Association’s...
Environment
Google may know pretty much everything, but it’s knowledge of field boundaries, hedgerows and forests isn’t good enough for the...
Rural Life
There will be no extension to the TAMS Farm Safety Scheme deadline, the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney says. The...
Beef
Cattle throughput to meat factories remains down compared to last year with 40,000 less cattle killed last week compared to...
Agri-Business
Many farmers still use the ‘blue book’ as their herd register despite the facility being available online. The requirement to...
Environment
Some 1,206 farmers are still waiting on payment under the AEOS scheme, according to latest figures released by the Department...
Beef
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has reported the full background to the BSE case in Co. Louth. Based...
Agri-Business
The group of farmers known as ‘old young farmers’ will not be able to avail of the 60% grant aid...
Environment
Only four applications were made this year to the Department of Agriculture’s dedicated scheme to support bio-energy crops and due...
Agri-Business
A fund of €130,000 has been made available to help fund the development and training of a business programme aimed...
Beef
The national beef kill was below the 30,000 mark again last week with a throughput of 29,001 cattle to meat plants,...
Agri-Business
Figures from the Department of Agriculture’s Annual Review and Outlook for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, 2014/2015 show that the agri-food...
Rural Life
The finalising of the Statutory Instrument for the establishment of farm partnerships by the Department of Agriculture has been welcomed by...