Agri-Business
Kilkenny mother and daughter farming team win technology grant
A mother and daughter farming in Co. Kilkenny have been awarded a €1,000 grant in recognition of their use of...
Agri-Business
A mother and daughter farming in Co. Kilkenny have been awarded a €1,000 grant in recognition of their use of...
Rural Life
A pedigree sheep farmer from Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, has been named as the 2023 FBD Young Farmer of the Year....
Rural Life
The six finalists bidding to become the 2023 FBD Young Farmer of the Year have been announced today (Tuesday, August...
Agri-Business
Farmers have been called on to look to the future by Macra president Elaine Houlihan, who said that it is...
Dairy
A possible scheme to reduce the number of dairy cows in the country has been slammed by the former president...
Farm Safety
Farmers should avail of grant opportunities to purchase farm safety equipment to prevent farm accidents, according to the Macra president,...
Agri-Business
The decline in Ireland’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 1.9% last year has been described as a “result of...
Agri-Business
Macra has strongly condemned the “shocking practices” involving dairy bull calves shown during an RTÉ Investigates programme last night (Monday,...
Agri Politics
Macra representatives are meeting with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar today (Monday, July 10) to directly discuss a number of issues of...
Agri-Business
A farmer from Co. Tipperary has been awarded a grant of €1,000 in recognition of his “entrepreneurial use of technology”....
Agri Politics
Former Macra president Thomas Duffy has concluded his term as a vice-president of the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA)....
Dairy
The president of Macra has said that she is “astounded” at the prospect of reducing the number of dairy cows...
Rural Life
Final preparations are now being made for the only TEDx event, which takes place in Ratoath, Co. Meath, on July...
Agri-Business
Significant investment over a “longer term” will be needed to hit the government’s tillage ambitions of 400,000ha by 2030, according...
Dairy
A proposed scheme to reduce the number of dairy cows in the country by paying farmers to exit the sector...
Rural Life
There is a projected loss of 10,600 farm and related workers between 2022 and 2035, according to a recent report...
Rural Life
A delay in publishing updated rural housing guidelines is leading to rural communities “dying on their feet”, according to Senator...
Rural Life
It will be a case of pedal power to the fore as a junior tractor run has been introduced as...