Agri-Business
ICMSA highlights PRSI issue during farm partnership transition
Chair of the ICMSA farm business committee, Pat O’Brien has called on the government to address what he described as...
Family Farm
Agri-Business
Taoiseach to seek 'action' on inheritance tax in budget
Taoiseach Simon Harris said today (Wednesday, August 21) that he believes inheritance tax is hitting farmers “disproportionately”. Speaking at the...
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Transition period & early lactation: A springboard to a successful lactation
A focus on management and nutrition during the transition period makes all the difference to performance in the next lactation. ...
Rural Life
Sinn Féin proposes bill to set up commission on family farm future
Sinn Féin has introduced legislation in the Dáil to set up a ‘Commission on the Future of the Family Farm’....
N.Ireland
Man who set wife on fire at family farm jailed for 18 years
A judge in Northern Ireland has sentenced a man, who set his wife on fire in a car at the...
Rural Life
Central Bank: Land and homes among most common inheritances
Land and dwellings are among the most common forms of assets passed on as inheritances, according to the Central Bank....
N.Ireland
NI family farm uses seven-figure 'green loan' to cut emissions
Vegetable farming enterprise Mash Direct based in Co. Down has used a seven-figure green loan from HSBC UK to reduce...
Rural Life
'I've gone back to my roots' says beetroot-juice producer
Co. Offaly native Anne Marie Feighery has, literally, gone back to her roots on the family farm just outside Kilcormac,...
Agri-Business
Copa Cogeca: Family farming will pay a high price under permit proposal
Copa Cogeca, which lobbies for 22 million European farmers has said that thousands of family livestock farms will be unfairly...
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Aurivo ‘Your Farm, Your Future’ events to showcase dairy careers
Two events are set to take place in the north-west to showcase the positives of the Irish dairy sector and...
Agri-Business
Small family farms facing 'mass exodus' - councillor
A Kerry county councillor has claimed that there will be a “mass exodus” from small family farms, unless the sector...
Rural Life
Family farm model has 'remained the bedrock' - McConalogue
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, has spoken at the Oxford Farming Conference today (January 6, 2022)...
Rural Life
Farmer's view on avoiding pitfalls of an 'inheritance nightmare'
One farmer has called for what he describes as “an inheritance nightmare” across many Irish farms over the years to...
Agri Politics
'It is vital that...no farms are sacrificed for what some may perceive as the greater good'
Protecting family farms should be a focus of the new agriculture ministerial team, according to the Irish Natura and Hill...
Rural Life
Farm safety webinar to hear from an emergency responder
The Agricultural Science Association (ASA) is hosting a webinar this Wednesday, June 17, on ‘The Importance of Farm Safety for...
Rural Life
'The vision is there will be no more one-off housing in very rural settings in this country'
One-off housing in the countryside is set to become a thing of the past if new planning rules are implemented...
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Transform your calf rearing with a JFC automatic feeder
We recently caught up with Richard Lowe who is a dairy farmer from Adare, Co. Limerick, who shares how the...
Dairy
Disappearing dairies: Small family farms 'squeezed out' of US market
Reporting from Lexington, Kentucky, US. In November 2014 Eddie Gibson, a dairy farmer from Walton, Kentucky, became the first farmer...
Agri-Business
Vulture funds: IFA will get 'best possible outcome' for farmers
A motion focusing on vulture funds, which had been put forward at a previous committee meeting, was withdrawn at the...
Beef
Increased feedlot numbers 'threaten Ireland's family farm model'
Concerns have been raised over the increasing feedlot kill figures on the overall beef market by Sinn Fein MEP for...
Agri-Business
Vulture funds warned to back off or face 'rural revolt'
‘Vulture funds’ have been warned off going after Irish farmers and rural dwellers by political party Renua Ireland. According to...