Beef
Dairy calf to beef action plan finalised
An action plan was finalised today (Friday, March 8) to support dairy calf to beef systems in Ireland. It was...
Food Vision 2030
Environment
FIE considering appeal after Food Vision 2030 case dismissed
Environmental group Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) has said that it is considering an appeal after its challenge to...
Tillage News
Food Vision Tillage Group to seek new scheme
The Food Vision Tillage Group draft interim report calls on the government to scrap the Tillage Incentive Scheme (TIS) and...
Agri-Business
Minister launches annual report for Food Vision 2030
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has today (Wednesday, May 24) launched the first annual report for...
Tillage
Food Vision Tillage Group to meet for first time next week
Sources within the farming and feed sectors have confirmed that the first meeting of the Food Vision Tillage Group will...
Tillage News
Food Vision Tillage Group unlikely to meet before May
The Irish Grain Growers’ Group (IGGG) chairman Bobby Miller believes that it is unlikely that a new Food Vision Tillage...
Agri-Business
New tillage group must be more than talking shop - IGGG
The Irish Grain Growers’ Group (IGGG) has said that any new tillage group established by the government cannot be another...
Beef
ICSA: Funding needed for climate action in beef and sheep sectors
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) has today (Thursday, December 16) set out a series of proposals to...
Agri-Business
Minister should not progress with Food Vision reports - Cullinan
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has said that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, should not...
Tillage News
No plans to establish Food Vision Tillage Group - minister
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has said that there are currently no plans to establish...
Agri-Business
Calls for a Food Vision Tillage Group to be established
The government has been accused of being “blinkered” when it comes to tillage farmers and relying on “imported industrial by-products...
Agri-Business
McConalogue wants to stay as Minister for Agriculture
The countdown is underway to the cabinet reshuffle and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, is...
Dairy
Food Vision Dairy Group final report with McConalogue
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has received the Food Vision Dairy Group’s final report, which...
Dairy
Food Vision Dairy Group: Farmers cutting numbers could lose €2,910/cow
Farmers exiting the dairy sector could lose an estimated €1,770/cow removed, while farmers reducing numbers could lose an estimated €2,910/cow,...
Dairy
Macra: Dairy Vision report must keep doors open for young farmers
Macra has stated that it would push back against stakeholders in the Food Vision Dairy Group if they agreed to...
Agri-Business
'Misapprehension' about farming and agri-food sector criticised by ICMSA
The government has a fundamental “misapprehension” about the role and structure of Ireland’s farming and agri-food sector, the Irish Creamery Milk...
Agri-Business
Ireland's agri-food industry is at a crossroads warns Taoiseach
The agri-food industry is essential to Ireland’s economy but it is at a crossroads, Taoiseach Micheál Martin warned at the...
Agri-Business
McConalogue to host agri-food policy conference
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has today (Wednesday, August 17) confirmed that he is to host...