Opinion
Opinion: Continuing drought haunts France and Germany
I have just returned from north-east Germany, a region of the world that has not seen rain of any consequence...
Opinion
I have just returned from north-east Germany, a region of the world that has not seen rain of any consequence...
Opinion
When talking about inflation, consider first that Ireland exports just over €15 billion worth of agri-food products annually. For the largest...
Opinion
I sense that the speech by the Taoiseach at the recent Food Vision 2030 conference was written by the environment...
Opinion
I believe that the farm minister missed a wonderful opportunity to lay out his thoughts on the future of Irish...
Opinion
Calls for the banishment of ploughing are becoming ever louder and more sonorous, with just about everybody who has an...
Opinion
Minister for Agriculture, Charlie McConalogue, has confirmed that Ireland is to have its very own ‘Food Tsar’ – a new...
Opinion
Risk management was one of the ‘buzz terms’ trotted out by all of the farming organisations in attendance at this...
Opinion
I heartily concur with the Beef Plan Movement’s proposed introduction of a ‘lime subsidy’, covering both procurement and spreading costs....
Opinion
There has been a litany of attacks on the agri sector in some of the D4-dominated national media, following the...
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I would like to offer my heartiest congratulations to the members of the Irish ploughing team; they have made the...
N.Ireland
The UK’s newly confirmed Prime Minister seems to be changing her perspectives on the importance of agriculture. In the middle...
Opinion
Northern Ireland’s local agri-show season for 2022 is now in the rearview mirror, and what a great year it has been....
Opinion
It has been a great harvest, up to this point in time. The weather has held up and most cereal...
Opinion
The confirmation that food prices are stagnating across the UK retail food sector is really bad news for Irish farming....
Opinion
I thought it was illegal to put cattle with horns into a sale ring. But seemingly not at the present...
Opinion
As we absorb the fallout from the recent coalition government negotiations regarding sectoral climate budgets, it is very hard not...
Opinion
Farmers that I have been speaking to are furious at what they regard as the ‘stitch up’ that was the...
Opinion
I see that certain rural TDs are worried about the 25% compromise on agriculture emissions. Over the past few weeks...