Beef
Quotes unchanged as beef factories return to business after adverse weather
After what can only be described as a disastrous number of days weather wise, beef processing plants are back open...
Beef
After what can only be described as a disastrous number of days weather wise, beef processing plants are back open...
Rural Life
Farmers have been urged to prioritise safety during the difficult weather by the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association’s (ICSA’s) rural...
Agri Politics
Eddie Downey, the former president of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), has asked for an invitation to speak, in camera,...
Tillage
Mark Browne is a tillage farmer from just outside Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. He farms with his brother Garrett and tillage...
Agri Politics
Former chief executive of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) Pat Smith has given his reaction to his High Court settlement...
Agri Politics
It has been confirmed that a settlement has been reached between Pat Smith and the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) in...
Tillage
Potato growers get less than a fifth of the retail price that a consumer pays for their produce, the National Potato...
Opinion
Delivering for the public good will be one of the key challenges facing Irish agriculture over the next 10 years....
Rural Life
The new county chairperson of Tipperary South Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), Erica O’Keefe, has urged both women farming alone and...
Forestry
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) came in for some criticism at a recent Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) consultation meeting in...
Sheep
The Clean Livestock Policy (CLP) for sheep has become a major point of contention of late. Although the policy was...
Agri Politics
Proposals of a suggested 30% cut to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) budget “would shut down agriculture and rural Ireland”,...
Environment
The recommendation by the Citizens’ Assembly in November 2017 to impose a carbon tax on Irish agriculture is deeply flawed, according...
Agri Politics
In recent weeks, a number of women from right across the country have taken the reigns of their respective county...
CAP / Schemes
Confirmation from Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed of how the additional €25 million promised for the 2018 Areas of Natural...
Sheep
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is understood to have agreed to review the “unworkable aspects” of the...
Dairy
Co-op boards – that will be meeting in the coming days to set the January milk price – have been...
Beef
The capacity of the recently-confirmed replacement ferry to carry calves for live export remains an issue, according to the Irish Cattle...