N.Ireland
Active farmer definitions are on a 'collision course' rural law expert warns
The writing is on the wall for conacre tax reliefs, one of Northern Ireland’s leading agricultural law experts warned farmers...
N.Ireland
The writing is on the wall for conacre tax reliefs, one of Northern Ireland’s leading agricultural law experts warned farmers...
N.Ireland
Farmers are frequently spending money which should have been put aside for their annual tax bill, a Northern Ireland agricultural...
Agri-Business
The latest farm economic forecasts were revealed – along with details of a new sustainability initiative that is being rolled out...
N.Ireland
Farm income might be up but farmers continue to face tough times, industry leaders warn as the latest figures show...
Agri-Business
The bottom line on the average Northern Ireland farm is sitting £15,952 (€18,215) up on the year before, according to the...
Agri-Business
Average farm incomes have improved in Ireland this year; this was the key message at the Teagasc National Outlook conference,...
N.Ireland
UK cereal farmers are being urged to proactively plan for Brexit and not to “wait and see” what happens. Tillage...
Beef
Cattle enterprises are, by far, the most popular across the country. Of the 83,377 farms represented by the Teagasc National...
Dairy
The average dairy farm income, across the 15,639 farms represented by the Teagasc National Farm Survey, was €51,809 in 2016....
Tillage
Teagasc has predicted another tough year for the tillage sector, and even into the next five to seven years. Weather...
Dairy
With a 17% decline in the average dairy farm income last year, dairy farmers had to increase milk production by...
Beef
Increases in support payments led to higher suckler farm income figures in 2016, which otherwise would not have been the...
Sheep
Only 24% of sheep farms in Ireland are ‘viable’ according to Teagasc. The National Farm Survey revealed, of the 12,758...
Rural Life
Regions where dairying is most prevalent are generally more profitable and have a lower reliance on direct payments, according to Teagasc’s...
Rural Life
Approximately 19% of farms in Ireland produced a farm income of less than €5,000 in 2016, according to the preliminary results...
N.Ireland
Total income from farming in the UK plummeted 7.5% in real terms between 2015 and 2016, according to revised figures...
Rural Life
Farm income varies significantly by farming enterprise. The average farm income across the 83,377 farms represented by the Teagasc National...
CAP / Schemes
The average direct payment was €17,932 in 2016, accounting for 75% of farm income, a preliminary estimate from Teagasc’s National Farm Survey...