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High hopes for a GLAS top-up organic farming payment
Ireland’s new Green Low-Carbon Agri-environment Scheme (GLAS) payment must include organic farming as a core element and, in particular, organic...
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Ireland’s new Green Low-Carbon Agri-environment Scheme (GLAS) payment must include organic farming as a core element and, in particular, organic...
Agri-Business
Cork-based farmer David Jennings spoke on his own experience of farming in partnership at today’s Positive Farming conference in Clonmel,...
Agri-Business
There was a tremendous turnout of delegates from this side of the Irish Sea attending the recent Oxford Farming Conference....
Rural Life
The BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition takes place this week in the RDS and once again a host of agricultural-based...
Agri-Business
More than 58,000 jobs were created last year in Ireland and 25,000 of these were in farming. This is according...
Breaking News
August began with the news that Dawn Fresh Foods was closing its plant in Fethard with the loss 104 permanent...
Agri-Business
COMMENT: The tremendous news generated by the dairy sector over recent days has been tempered by the more than challenging...
Breaking News
The effect of the fodder crisis on Irish farming is estimated to be in the region of €500m. This is...
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Met Eireann is set to embrace social media with more tailored forecasts for Irish farmers. This is according to Ray...
Agri-Business
Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, and farming organisation, the ICMSA, have described the threatened industrial action at ESB as “a...
Agri-Business
John Deere has announced its support for global crop protection company’s BASF’s national ‘Farming, the Biggest Job on Earth’ campaign....
Agri-Business
The View from Teagasc: When Ireland joined the EU so started Teagasc’s longest running research project – the National Farm...
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The View from Teagasc: The major challenge in Irish farming is to mobilise scarce land resources into productive and profitable...
Agri Politics
World View: An international team of researchers, co-led by scientists at the University of York and Yunnan Normal University, has...
Rural Life
Smart Farming is a new initiative which highlights ways that you can reduce your farm bills and maximise output through...
Breaking News
COMMENT: The impact of Budget 2014 on farming and agriculture in Ireland could be considered for once as mild, bearing in...
Agri-Business
Budget 2014: Ireland’s farming and agriculture tax reliefs are under review and changes are afoot, according to Finance Minister Michael...
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COMMENT: Irish Farmers Association (IFA) President John Bryan has called on Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney to mount a major battle at cabinet to defend farm...