Dairy
The Byrne family from Coolnasmear, Co. Waterford have been gradually improving farm infrastructure while producing quality milk with...
Eoin Corrigan farms with his parents, Sean and Catherine, and his wife Roisin where family, togetherness and reliability are prized.
Agri-Business
ICMSA's Pat O'Brien has called on the government to address PRSI issues for farmers looking to change their enterprise status
Video
Meet the father and daughter team based in Paradise, Co. Wexford - Sean Tracey and his 12-year-old daughter Amelia.
Taoiseach Simon Harris said today (Wednesday, August 21) that he believes inheritance tax is...
Rural Life
Sinn Féin has introduced legislation in the Dáil to set up a 'Commission on the Future of the Family Farm'.
N.Ireland
A judge in Northern Ireland has sentenced a man, who set his wife on fire, in a car at the family farm, for a minimum period of 18 years.
Land and dwellings are among the most common forms of assets passed on as inheritances, according...
Mash Direct based in Co. Down has used a seven-figure green loan from HSBC UK to reduce emissions and boost its environmental efforts.
Anne Marie Feighery has literally gone back to her roots on the family farm just outside Kilcormac, producing beetroot juice.
Copa Cogeca, which lobbies for 22 million European farmers has said that thousands of family...
A Kerry county councillor has claimed that there will be a "mass exodus" from small family farms unless the sector is supported.
Minister McConalogue has spoken at the Oxford Farming Conference on January 6, 2022, highlighting Ireland's family farm system.
One farmer has called for what he describes as "an inheritance nightmare" across many Irish farms...
Agri Politics
Protecting family farms should be the focus of the new ministerial team, according to INHFA president Colm O'Donnell.
The ASA is hosting a webinar this Wednesday, June 17, on "the Importance of Farm Safety for you and your Family".
One-off housing in the countryside is set to become a thing of the past if new planning rules are implemented by local authorities.
In November 2014 dairy farmer Eddie Gibson became the first farmer in the US state of Kentucky to install a robotic-milking system.
IFA's Farm Business Committee chairman Martin Stapleton says family farms need to be treated differently when it comes vulture funds.
Beef
Concerns have been raised over the increasing feedlot kill figures on the overall beef market by Sinn Fein MEP Matt Carthy.
'Vulture funds' in Ireland have been warned off going after Irish farmers and rural dwellers or face 'rural revolt'.
Half of farms are no longer making a living from farming itself. Is there a future for the small family farm in the UK?
"We need to find a mechanism to protect family farm units. There is seven billion people on the planet, which will go to nine billion and we need to feed them," he said.
