Rural Life
Child safety: 'The unthinkable can happen in seconds'
For the fourth day of Farm Safety Week (today, Thursday, July 19), the focus is on keeping children safe on...
Rural Life
For the fourth day of Farm Safety Week (today, Thursday, July 19), the focus is on keeping children safe on...
Rural Life
The increased risk of farm accidents due to reduced hearing and eyesight as farmers get older was flagged up today...
Machinery
Farmers have been urged “not to rely on luck” when working with machinery by the chairperson of the Irish Farmers’...
Agri Politics
As Farm Safety Week 2018 gets underway this week from today (Monday, July 16), the Irish Farmers’ Association has announced...
Rural Life
The sixth annual Farm Safety Week UK and Ireland – which aims to to reduce the number of accidents on...
Environment
An incentivised approach, rather than a tax increase, is the method that should be pursued by the Government to deliver on...
Environment
A total of almost €700,000 in funding has been secured to mobilise a number of tyre recycling centres across the country....
Dairy
Co-ops “owe it to farmers” to increase the June base milk price, given Ornua’s Purchase Price Index (PPI) announcement for June,...
Agri-Business
Farmers who are owed money as a result of Castleblayney Mart going into liquidation earlier this year are considering legal...
CAP / Schemes
Concerns surrounding the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) were the main focus of a meeting between a delegation...
Agri-Business
A meeting is scheduled to take place tonight (Monday, July 9) to discuss the closure of Castleblayney Mart in Co....
Environment
The passage of the Heritage Bill through the Dail this week marked “a dark day for Irish biodiversity”, Ireland’s leading...
Beef
Processors have come out in defence of recent cuts to the beef price, after they were accused of “taking advantage”...
Environment
Following meetings last week with farming organisations, Irish Water has supply measures in place to assist drought-stricken farmers around the...
Tillage
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has concluded negotiations with Boortmalt following a meeting today. A revised malting barley pricing structure...
Agri Politics
It is understood that an agreement has been reached to appoint an agronomist to all future greenway projects. It is also...
Rural Life
A delegation from the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) will meet with Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Shane Ross this...
Tillage
Malting barley farmers were made a fixed-price offer of €188/t yesterday (Monday, June 25) – by Boortmalt – for their...