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’....
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...
Rural Life
Land and dwellings are among the most common forms of assets passed on as inheritances, according to the Central Bank....
N.Ireland
Vegetable farming enterprise Mash Direct based in Co. Down has used a seven-figure green loan from HSBC UK to reduce...
Rural Life
Co. Offaly native Anne Marie Feighery has, literally, gone back to her roots on the family farm just outside Kilcormac,...
Agri-Business
Copa Cogeca, which lobbies for 22 million European farmers has said that thousands of family livestock farms will be unfairly...
Agri-Business
A Kerry county councillor has claimed that there will be a “mass exodus” from small family farms, unless the sector...
Rural Life
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, has spoken at the Oxford Farming Conference today (January 6, 2022)...
Rural Life
One farmer has called for what he describes as “an inheritance nightmare” across many Irish farms over the years to...
Agri Politics
Protecting family farms should be a focus of the new agriculture ministerial team, according to the Irish Natura and Hill...
Rural Life
The Agricultural Science Association (ASA) is hosting a webinar this Wednesday, June 17, on ‘The Importance of Farm Safety for...
Rural Life
One-off housing in the countryside is set to become a thing of the past if new planning rules are implemented...
Dairy
Reporting from Lexington, Kentucky, US. In November 2014 Eddie Gibson, a dairy farmer from Walton, Kentucky, became the first farmer...
Agri-Business
A motion focusing on vulture funds, which had been put forward at a previous committee meeting, was withdrawn at the...
Beef
Concerns have been raised over the increasing feedlot kill figures on the overall beef market by Sinn Fein MEP for...
Agri-Business
‘Vulture funds’ have been warned off going after Irish farmers and rural dwellers by political party Renua Ireland. According to...
Agri-Business
Half of farms in the UK are no longer making a living from farming itself, and 20% generated a loss even...
Rural Life
We need to find a mechanism to protect family farm units, according to IFA President Eddie Downey. Speaking on Newstalk...