Rural Life
Calls for more supports to encourage women to take a central role in farming
Marking International Women’s Day 2017, IFA President Joe Healy has called for more supports and incentives to encourage women to...
Rural Life
Marking International Women’s Day 2017, IFA President Joe Healy has called for more supports and incentives to encourage women to...
Dairy
It is essential that co-ops would at all times put Global Dairy Trade results, both positive and negative, in proper...
Tillage
Boortmalt will meet with the IFA on Monday, March 13, to discuss malting barley prices for 2017, according to IFA Deputy...
Dairy
Dairy farmers need to feed their bull calves well prior to sale, to improve their chances of being exported out...
Sheep
Some factories’ use of the clean sheep policy is contrary to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine policy, the IFA...
Opinion
No industry on this planet knows how to put up its prices like the drinks sector. Over the years, it...
Agri-Business
There has been a strong demand for the €150m low-cost loan scheme, according to Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) Chief Executive...
Rural Life
Members from two farming organisations held a protest over the possible closure of the Regional Veterinary Lab in Athlone, Co....
Agri-Business
Targets set out in Food Wise 2025 may no longer reflect what is possible, according to a report from the Joint...
Tillage
Diageo has told Boortmalt that it wants to make €1m worth of savings on malt prices, according to IFA Grain...
Agri-Business
Ireland’s four main farming organisations were out in force earlier today in Sligo where they held a protest against the...
Agri-Business
Four of Ireland’s main farming organisations are joining forces today at the Sligo Regional Veterinary Lab in a protest against the...
CAP / Schemes
Young farmers will be catered for with the injection of €5m in funding in 2017 for the National Reserve, Macra...
Pig/Poultry
Supermarkets need to support ‘free range’ poultry farmers, according to the Chairman of the IFA Poultry Committee Nigel Renaghan. The ‘free...
Environment
The Government must review the disproportionate level of nitrates inspections that are imposed on farmers, IFA Environment Chairman, Thomas Cooney has...
Pig/Poultry
A new labelling system is being considered to protect the ‘free range’ status of eggs, according to Minister of State...
Rural Life
The High Court has overturned a decision to award a hillwalker €40,000 in damages for injuries sustained after a fall on...
Tillage
The tillage sector needs some support or it may well disappear, according to IFA Grain Committee Chairman Liam Dunne. Dunne...