Agri Politics
'Contract rearing is a short-term gain for long-term pain'
Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice has criticised Teagasc – the agriculture and food development authority – for promoting the contract rearing...
Agri Politics
Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice has criticised Teagasc – the agriculture and food development authority – for promoting the contract rearing...
Agri-Business
Contract rearing offers drystock farmers another economic option to make their farms viable and they should not be denied that...
Beef
A real viable solution has to be found in “ongoing systematic flaws” in the beef sector – particularly with the...
Dairy
There is a “massive divergence” in milk prices that the present Ornua Purchase Price Index (PPI) is generating when compared...
Agri-Business
Two of the country’s leading farm organisations have opted not to attend the much-publicised 12th Beef Roundtable this week. The Irish...
Dairy
There was mixed reaction among north-west farmers to proposed opportunities for contract rearing heifer calves from the dairy industry, following...
Beef
“It’s a very simple idea. Instead of moving vast amounts of fodder out of the west, we are currently looking...
Agri-Business
Details of the anticipated Long-term Investment Loan Scheme in response to Brexit were revealed by Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed...
National Ploughing Championships
Consequences of harsh weather conditions on the site of the ‘Ploughing’ was the main discussion point for Irish Creamery Milk...
Grass
Farmers have been urged to undertake an evaluation of what forage is currently available on-farm to examine the extent of...
National Ploughing Championships
The president of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers’ Association (ICMSA), Pat McCormack, believes that it may have been “wiser” to...
Dairy
Gerald Quain, chairperson of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers’ Association’s (ICMSA’s) dairy committee, said the obvious way for processors to...
Agri Politics
The continuing nonappearance of the Brexit Low Interest Loan Scheme was top of the agenda for the Irish Creamery Milk...
Dairy
Processors have been called upon to seriously look at increasing milk prices for August supplies by the Irish Creamery Suppliers’...
Rural Life
ICMSA president Pat McCormack described the extreme weather events of 2018 and the resulting fodder shortages they caused as “unprecedented”,...
Agri Politics
The position of individual farmers will have to be ‘front and centre’ in any new strategy to eradicate TB by...
Beef
No solution to the imminent fodder crisis will be possible without an intensive and co-ordinated drive on live exports, according...
Dairy
The latest milk production figures for July released by the Central Statistics Office “underline graphically” the effect the drought conditions...