Beef
Minister receives progress report from Food Vision beef group
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has received a progress report from the Food Vision Beef and...
Food Vision Beef and Sheep Group
Agri-Business
IFA seeks meeting with minister on food vision reports
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) is seeking a meeting with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue in...
Beef
Beef and sheep group draft report includes 'extensification scheme'
The draft interim report of Food Vision Beef and Sheep Group includes a ‘voluntary extensification scheme’ to reduce beef cow...
Beef News
'Work ongoing' on interim Food Vision beef report - DAFM
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has said that work is continuing on an interim report on...
Beef
Government trying to cut herd with 'cow scrappage scheme' - TD
Independent TD Danny Healy Rae has said that the government is clearly trying to reduce the national herd by offering...
Beef
Food Vision Group hears call for assessment of climate measures
The Food Vision Beef and Sheep Group has heard that no climate change mitigation measures should be implemented in those...
Beef
Beef Plan Movement against any reduction in suckler cows
The Beef Plan Movement (BPM) has written to agriculture minister, Charlie McConalogue, asking him not to agree to any reduction...
Agri-Business
Macra rejects farm exit scheme proposals
Macra na Feirme has said that it will reject any proposed measure seeking to introduce an exit scheme from farming....
Beef News
No agreement on suckler exit scheme - farm orgs
Two farming organisations have said that no agreement has been reached by the Food Vision Beef and Sheep Group on...
Sheep News
ICSA urges Food Vision group to examine sheep markets
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) has urged the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue,...
Beef News
Food Vision group told plans for beef sector must consider suckler-herd decline
Plans for the beef sector must consider the decline in suckler-cow numbers, and protect this critical resource, national livestock chair of...
Beef
Food Vision group hears solar and forestry not counted in agri-emissions
The first meeting of the Food Vision Beef and Sheep Group was held yesterday (Thursday, June 16), and though the...
Agri-Business
McConalogue: 'Exciting future' for beef and sheep farmers
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has today (Thursday, June 16) formally established the Food Vision...
Agri-Business
First meeting of Food Vision Beef and Sheep Group this week
The inaugural meeting of the new Food Vision Beef and Sheep Group is set to take place this week in...