Some 5,000 visitors are expected to ‘flock’ to Burt, Co. Donegal this week to attend the 2014 Irish National Sheep Dog...
July 24, 2014
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has written to a number of major retailers challenging their lamb sourcing policies, following their lack...
July 22, 2014
The sheep trade showed little change from the previous week with demand remaining steady and a slight decrease in supply...
July 19, 2014
Factories are paying up to 20c/kg over quotes to €4.70/kg for lambs this week, according to the IFA. The IFA...
July 15, 2014
Lamb consumption data from Kantar for the four weeks ending 25 May 2014 has recorded a steep decline in both...
The Government has lost touch with grass roots farming, the United Farmers Association (UFA) said after last week’s farming meeting in...
July 14, 2014
Increased pressure is starting to be exerted on lamb prices, according to the IFA’s latest update. It says its...
July 10, 2014
Sheep farmers’ margins have been cut substantially in the past two week, as lamb prices received by farmers has fallen...
July 9, 2014
Sheep farmers are resisting taking lower prices for their lambs according to the Irish Farmers Association’s (IFA) latest lamb market...
July 8, 2014
The sheep trade has seen a further ease in prices on the back of plentiful supplies this week according to...
July 4, 2014
In the first six months of the year New Zealand has used only 42% of its 228,254 tonne tariff-free quota...
July 2, 2014
IFA National Sheep Chairman John Lynskey said the fall in lamb prices at the factories in the last week of...
July 1, 2014
The x-factor in lamb prices will be consumer demand, according to EBLEX an organisation for beef and lamb levy payers in...
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