Agri-Business
The Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS) has added its voice to the calls for a new tax on fertiliser imports to be postponed.
Tillage
Teagasc is confirming that Irish grain production increased by some 300,000t in 2025, relative to the year previous
Irish tillage incomes are set to come under yet further pressure in 2026. This will be due to a combination of factors
While ground conditions are still poor in most parts of the country, the first round of chemical fertiliser will...
Milk prices have dropped significantly in the 12 months up until July 2023 and are now 34.7% lower than last year, the CSO has said today.
New figures from the CSO highlight that over the 12 months to June 2023 there was a sharp decline in the fertiliser price index.
Environment
Ammonia manufactured with ‘a zero’ carbon footprint should be commercially available within the next two years.
Yara, one of the world's largest fertiliser manufacturers, said that its financial results for Q2 2023 have been impacted by falling prices.
Beef
Fertiliser prices are continuing to decline across the country but there remains to be a...
Most fertiliser prices are returning to their historical averages, and in some cases, like urea, have fallen according to Rabobank.
For the first time since the fertiliser crisis began back in early 2022, Calcium Ammonium Nitrate (CAN) has dropped to €490/t.
An Oireachtas committee will write to the minister urging him to investigate what its chairperson called a "cartel" in the fertiliser sector.
Agri Politics
Farmers are seeing a €100/t differential in fertiliser prices in the same county this week a farm organisation has warned.
Rural Life
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture will meet this evening to discuss the disparity in fertiliser prices around the country.
The difference in the prices quoted for fertiliser across the country is "unbelievable", according to a senior policy executive with the IFA.
The Beef Plan Movement (BPM) has asked the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) to investigate Ireland’s fertiliser market.
The Irish Farmers' Association (IFA) is today delivering more fertiliser from Northern Ireland to farmers south of the border.
The difference in fertiliser prices between here and Northern Ireland could cost farmers €250 million this year, according to IFA analysis.
A TD has urged minister for agriculture Charlie McConalogue to urgently investigate "the massive disparity in regional fertiliser costs".
Irish farmers are paying "unrealistic, exorbitant, over-the-top prices" for fertiliser according to an Independent TD for Kerry.
An MEP has said that an investigation is needed into price manipulation by some fertiliser manufacturers and in the wholesale supply chain.
The IFA is calling on merchants and co-ops to pass on significant reductions in global fertiliser prices to farmers.
Sheep News
The recently elected Irish Farmers' Association (IFA) Donegal county chair, Joe Sweeney, has...
