Agri-Business
Poll: Should cloning for food be banned - MEPs vote that it should be
Today, (Tuesday) September 8 MEPs voted yes on amendments to a European Commission proposal to ban the cloning of farm animals...
Agri-Business
Today, (Tuesday) September 8 MEPs voted yes on amendments to a European Commission proposal to ban the cloning of farm animals...
Dairy
The EU must bring more balance into the supply chain, introduce better tools against market disturbances and help dairy farmers...
Agri Politics
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached a provisional agreement on the outstanding issues concerning the proposal...
Agri Politics
Members of the European Agriculture Committee have asked to scrap the European Commission’s plans to set new binding reduction targets...
Agri Politics
The European Parliament’s agriculture committee is fully aware of dairy farmers’ deep concerns regarding their prospects for 2015 and beyond,...
Opinion
Irish-based policy makers need to start pursuing more vigorously the trade opportunities emulating from the EU rather than just viewing...
Agri Politics
The European Parliament has ruled that Member States should be allowed to determine their own stance on the cultivation of...
Agri Politics
Food companies face the challenge of consumers not willing to pay a premium for high standards, a new report has...
Agri Politics
“Today’s farmers are new Renaissance men: they must possess the right mix of science, economics, entrepreneurialism, and environmental awareness to...
Agri Politics
The European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee has said it must be involved in drawing the initial list of authorised ‘novel’ food products...
Agri Politics
An Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) delegation was in Brussels this week to participate in the COPA Cogeca Congress of European...
Agri-Business
The mindset on Irish farms needs to change to protect the health of all who work and live on Irish...
Agri-Business
At a meeting of the European Parliament’s Agriculture & Rural Development committee yesterday Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy raised concerns over...
Agri Politics
Phil Hogan Commissioner-designate for Agriculture and Rural Development had to answer a number of difficult questions during his hearing by the...
Opinion
One of the first jobs that Phil Hogan must do, even before he gets acquainted with the internal décor of...
Agri Politics
Ireland’s European commissioner-designate Phil Hogan won the support of over 70% of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee to become the...
Agri Politics
Ireland’s European commissioner-designate Phil Hogan has won the support of over 70% of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee to become the...
Agri Politics
All of the EU’s major farming organisations are extremely concerned on how the EU Commission’s ‘greening’ requirements under the reformed...