Dairy
Director of Dairy Industry Ireland, Connor Mulvihill highlighted the importance of young farmers at the first of the Aurivo ‘Your Farm...
Keeping costs down is the driver of profitability for Cork dairy farmer Joe Deane who has built his way up in the dairy industry through...
Dairy Technical
Dairy farmers need to determine if additional land is going to be profitable for their enterprise before making decisions.
Property
Amendments on income tax relief for leasing farmland will not apply to anyone who inherits or is gifted land.
AgriLand spoke to Clive Kavanagh, director of Jordan Auctioneers, recently on land leasing prices in the country.
Agri-Business
West of Ireland auctioneer says there is plenty of land available to lease and while cost has risen it will level out in 2019.
Grass
Calls have been made on the Department of Agriculture to introduce supports or measures to mobilise lowly-stocked farmers to grow more silage,
Agri Politics
Data shows that Irish farmers are losing approximately €85 million in direct support payments due to higher land rental costs, according to the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers' Association (ICMSA).
Tillage
Land leasing prices, for cereal ground, increased by 63% from 2010 to 2017 in Leinster, according to a recent report by the SCSI and Teagasc.
Leasing land is a bit like renting out a house, according to Ivan Whitten, a Teagasc tillage advisor in Co. Kildare.
Demand is out-stripping supply in the land leasing business and auctioneers are extremely busy as February approaches.
Rural Life
A tax relief for landowners to lease land to sports clubs would be difficult to justify, according to the Minister for Finance.
Many Irish landowners are now opting to set their property on the basis of a long term lease.
