Agri-Business
Silver lining for Irish exports as euro continues to weaken
The euro continues to weaken against the US Dollar and Sterling in the face of the Greek crisis. In recent...
Agri-Business
The euro continues to weaken against the US Dollar and Sterling in the face of the Greek crisis. In recent...
Beef
The average R3 heifer price in the Republic for the week ending June 14 2015 was 425.7c/kg, this was 30.1c/kg...
Agri-Business
The EU has agreed to extend its current package of economic sanctions against Russia until the middle of January 2016,...
Agri Politics
CAP simplification is a priority over the next five years for the EU Agricultural and Rural Development Commissioner Phil Hogan....
Agri Politics
MEPs have voted on a draft law to ban the cloning of farm animals, their descendants and cloned food, feed...
Agri-Business
Some €27m is to reimbursed to farmers, which was deducted from their 2013 Single Payment Scheme payments, the Minister for...
Beef
Ireland continues to retain its fourth place position on the EU deadweight cattle price league table, the latest Livestock and...
Agri Politics
The deadlock around genetically modified organisms (GMOs) needs to end, according to EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis. The Commissioner...
Dairy
Installing two milking robots on a Swedish farm has given the owners more time with their children they say. Carina...
Agri Politics
On June 17 MEPs from the Environment and Agriculture Committees will vote on draft regulations proposing to ban the cloning of...
Pig/Poultry
The pig price gap between Ireland and the European Union (EU) has continued to narrow over the past six years,...
Dairy
Some 720 dairy cows are milked three times a day on the Skottorps Sateri dairy farm in Sweden which is...
Beef
Argentinian beef exports to the European Union (EU) are up 13% to 8,000t from the same time last year, according...
Agri Politics
Opposition is growing towards the European Commission’s plans that would allow national bans on farmers’ use of genetically modified (GM) animal...
Agri-Business
There is no end in sight to the current Russian ban on EU food exports, according to ICOS European Affairs Executive...
Pig/Poultry
There are tentative indications that the EU pig herd is starting to decline, according to Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board...
Sheep
EU sheepmeat imports increased by 15% from last year in the first quarter of 2015, according to Eblex, the organisations...
Tillage
The European Commission has increased its estimates for both maize and barley production in 2015/16 in its latest balance sheet and...