Agri Politics
European Commission to return €410m to farmers
The European Commission has this week published a regulation to reimburse €410m to European farmers. This amount was deducted from...
Agri Politics
The European Commission has this week published a regulation to reimburse €410m to European farmers. This amount was deducted from...
Rural Life
The rural community are easy targets and there’s a lot of very agitated farmers out there sleeping with a shotgun...
Rural Life
In the last 18 months farms in rural areas of Limerick have been targeted by gangs almost on a weekly basis,...
Agri-Business
AIB is to launch its second €500m loan fund to support the development of Ireland’s agri-sector throughout the country. The...
Tillage
Most farmers have until the spring/summer of 2016 to have completed sprayer training courses, according to the Minister for Agriculture,...
Rural Life
Farmers have the power to change behaviour and improve farm safety across Ireland and Northern Ireland, according to industry experts....
Sheep
Some 14 sheep farmers in England have been reunited with their sheep that were stolen between 2010 and 2013 after...
Agri-Business
New lending to the agriculture sector fell back in the second quarter, but remains consistent over the past three years...
Dairy
The new season in spring is likely to be a particularly challenging time, as dairy farmers may face significant cash...
Rural Life
Some 20 farmers and the local community in Kilkerrin-Clonberne in Co. Galway have pitched in to help out a local...
Rural Life
Farmers have put plans for the Galway section of the Dublin to Galway Greenway on hold, after they objected to...
Agri-Business
Red tape and non-tariff barriers to trade need to be tackled in the current Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks,...
Rural Life
Budget 2016 was announced earlier this week by the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan. While farming groups welcomed Budget 2016, an...
Agri Politics
We talk about sustainable food supply chains but it’s not sustainable to squash a producer, to keep pushing down the price,...
Agri-Business
Budget 2016 has been broadly welcomed by farming groups but do you think it did enough for farmers? The Department...
Beef
Approximately 5% of the 30,000 farmers who applied to the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) have decided to leave...
Agri Politics
Non-farmer buyers have overtaken farmers as the main type of buyer of farmland in the UK, according to Savills. It...
Agri-Business
Farmers may yet be allowed join the Departments of Agriculture’s new Knowledge Transfer (KT) groups across two different sectors. Responding...