Dairy
Carbery Group announces October milk price as new mozzarella plant opens
Carbery Group has become the latest processor to reveal its milk price for the month of October. In a brief...
Expansion
Rural Life
Aldi announces €7 million deal with north-west entity
Aldi has agreed a one-year contract extension with the Co. Donegal-based fruit juice producer group Mulrines. According to a statement...
Dairy
Teagasc never advocated an unsustainable expansion strategy - Boyle
Teagasc never advocated an “unsustainable expansion strategy”, the authority’s director Prof. Gerry Boyle told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) today (Thursday,...
Agri-Business
Expansion: Aurivo announces €48 million investment plan
North-west based co-operative and agri business Aurivo has announced a €48 million investment plan for the business for the next...
Agri-Business
King of the hill: 'Dairy is the only sustainable sector'
Thursday, May 18, 2017, will go down as the greatest moment of Henry Corbally’s business career. As he walked up...
Rural Life
Roscommon organic enterprise in expansion mode
The Roscommon couple behind the Drumanilra organic enterprise is in expansion mode. Liam and Justina Gavin relocated to Boyle from...
Dairy
'There will be no bailout if milk price drops' - Hogan
Milk prices will drop unless farmers heed the warnings regarding oversupply in the European milk market, European Commissioner for Agriculture...
Dairy
'You've only one family to feed; how many cows do you need to milk?'
The abolition of milk quotas across Europe in 2015 has opened up the door for many Irish farmers to increase cow...
Dairy
Protecting milk quality during dairy expansion
Thomas Dwan and his parents, Eddie and Ann, were the winners of the NDC & Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards in...
Dairy
New entrant dairy farmer triples size of herd in 3 years
Padraig Keane milks 126 cows with his father John in Kilcormac, Co. Offaly. Having started out with a six-unit temporary parlour, milking...
Dairy
Can raising cow numbers hurt farm profitability?
Increasing cow numbers beyond what your farm can carry will severely impact profitability, contrary to the belief that expansion will...
Dairy
Turning grass into cash on a fragmented west of Ireland dairy farm
Sean O’Donnell milks 120 cross-bred cows in Co. Mayo with two straight forward mantras of turning grass into cash and...
Rural Life
'43% of farmers plan to expand their farms over the next one to three years'
Some 43% of farmers plan to expand their farms over the next one to three years, a Bank of Ireland...
Dairy
Managing risk on a 1,300 head US dairy farm - 'It's just another tool in the tool box'
Risk management is just another tool in any dairy farmers tool box, according to US dairy farmer Joe Thome. Thome...
Dairy
'Budgets should be the cornerstone of every dairy business'
Budgets should be the cornerstone of any dairy farming business, according to Mathew Venables. Speaking at this year’s Positive Farmers...