Agri-Business
Deadline looms for Covid-19 payment break applications
Farmers are being reminded that applications for the Covid-19 Payment Break close next Wednesday, September 30. Issuing the reminder, Irish...
Agri-Business
Farmers are being reminded that applications for the Covid-19 Payment Break close next Wednesday, September 30. Issuing the reminder, Irish...
Agri Politics
Two weeks to the day since the president of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), Tim Cullinan, burned a pile of...
Tillage
The value of the tillage sector is estimated to be down by 15% due to the difficult harvest according to...
Agri Politics
Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) president Tim Cullinan and livestock chairman Brendan Golden are meeting the Department of Agriculture today (Friday,...
Agri Politics
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has called on the government to seek an extension of the EU Temporary Aid Framework, to...
Tillage
Potato prices remain unchanged this week and there is more action in the fields as dry weather has helped to...
CAP / Schemes
The announcement that payments under the Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) scheme will be made to farmers over the coming...
Agri Politics
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has held an online meeting with the Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe, the Minister for Public...
Agri Politics
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has been called on to look at the TB model in Scotland,...
Agri Politics
The new EU veterinary medicine regulation “has the potential to severely impact on competition” in the supply of anthelmintics (a...
Rural Life
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) is to consider seeking compensation from the government for gun-owning farmers after an EU vote...
Forestry
The health of the national forest estate is under threat due to timber shortages as a result of the forest...
Agri Politics
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has appointed a new dairy executive in the form of Aine O’Connell. O’Connell was previously...
Beef
Researchers from Oxford University have found that the trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur “fails across sustainability criteria”. In...
Tillage
The busy season is underway for potato farmers, but weather is delaying progress. According to this week’s Potato Market Report...
Agri Politics
The TB Forum must ensure it delivers “real change” according to the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA). Commenting on the announcement...
Rural Life
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has expressed “serious concerns” on a proposal due to come before the European Parliament that...
Forestry
Farmers have “disengaged from forestry as a viable land use option due to the excessive bureaucracy” according to the Irish Farmers’...