Agri Politics
Funding needed in Budget 2021 for horticulture - IFA
At a meeting of Irish Farmers’ Association’s (IFA) Horticulture Committee with Minister of State for land use and biodiversity Pippa...
Agri Politics
At a meeting of Irish Farmers’ Association’s (IFA) Horticulture Committee with Minister of State for land use and biodiversity Pippa...
Tillage
Mologic has launched a new rapid test for Botrytis. BotrytisAlert uses lateral flow technology to enable earlier disease intervention and...
Agri-Business
The possibility of opening a fund to aid the horticulture sector following devastating weather damage has been raised with Minister...
Tillage
Ireland’s horticultural output was valued at approximately €4.77 million at the farmgate in 2019, according to preliminary figures from the...
Tillage
Growing Media Ireland (GMI) – a body which represents the majority of the country’s privately-owned producers of horticulture peat –...
Rural Life
Thousands of jobs in the horticulture sector are under threat due to the current prohibition of peat harvesting on all...
Agri-Business
There is “definite concern” among Irish growers as to the availability of seasonal horticulture workers as harvest season looms. Speaking...
Rural Life
A national horticulture recruitment campaign is currently being developed to recruit temporary workers from within this country, with the first...
Agri Politics
Consumers can either have cheap fruit and vegetables or pay a fair price to farmers and workers – not both,...
Tillage
Two re-purposed shipping containers, fitted with a ‘Farmony’ – 55m² in size, can produce 55,000 heads of lettuce per year or...
Tillage
Teagasc published the eighteenth edition of ‘Approved Pesticides for use on Vegetable Crops’ in April. The book includes a host...
Rural Life
Preparations are well underway for the “Horticulture Open Day” in Kildalton College later this week, according to education partner Waterford...
Tillage
The Horticulture Industry Forum (HIF) has set forth a series of measures to tackle the issue of the labour shortages...
Tillage
The new horticulture development scheme has been described as “essential for the continued development and competitiveness of the Irish horticulture...
Agri-Business
The 2019 scheme for horticulture development was opened today, October 31, by Minister of State Andrew Doyle. Minister Doyle, who...
CAP / Schemes
The introduction of non-European Economic Area (EEA) work permits under a new Government pilot scheme is “not a sustainable solution”...
Rural Life
Teagasc’s new horticulture research facility, worth €2.1 million, was officially opened by Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture,...
CAP / Schemes
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed has underlined the importance of a new pilot quota of employment...