Northern Ireland’s agriculture minister Edwin Poots has said that he cannot intervene in the debacle regarding the Department of Agriculture,...
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Up to this point, Brexit is turning out to be an unmitigated disaster for production agriculture in the UK. And...
May 23, 2022
The demand for farming news continues to increase at an insatiable rate, both here in Ireland and further afield. Farmers...
May 20, 2022
In addition to the human misery inflicted on Ukraine by the Russian invasion, the war has led to a huge...
I mean no harm to potato growers, but I was never so glad to hear that a blight warning has...
May 13, 2022
The current row regarding the restricting of turf sales has received much commentary, and I would suggest has succeeded in...
May 10, 2022
Fodder crisis; what fodder crisis? I hear you ask. The rains have returned; temperatures are rising and the weather looks...
May 6, 2022
While our thoughts are with the people of the Ukraine, some of the polarised arguments circulating in response to the...
May 1, 2022
With all grain prices currently north of €300/t, the very thought of reducing fungicide application rates this year seems ludicrous....
April 27, 2022
We are just six weeks away from the 2022 World Potato Congress (WPC). The event will be centred in Dublin...
April 25, 2022
The well leaked and well analysed Food Vision Dairy Group paper contains a number of insights that are reflective of...
April 22, 2022
A fodder crisis is hardly a new phenomenon for Irish farmers to be dealing with. During my lifetime I can...
April 14, 2022
We all know that conditioning accelerates the wilting of the crop in the field, which in turn increases fermentation and...
Let’s be honest, despite all the headlines, it’s not all bad news where agriculture is concerned at the present time....
April 11, 2022
Fixed-price milk schemes are crucial, but the European Green Deal also needs to look at some form of crop and...
April 7, 2022
When a government or, let’s say for sake of argument a milk processer, wants to introduce any form of limit...
April 1, 2022
If every acre of farmable land in Ireland was at its optimal soil pH value through liming, how much would...
March 30, 2022
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has issued a timely reminder to all of those in the...
March 29, 2022
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