Organics
Organic housing rules need change due to straw shortage - ICSA
The Organic Farming Scheme (OFS) requires changes to allow cattle to be housed in existing slatted sheds without straw bedding,...
Organics
The Organic Farming Scheme (OFS) requires changes to allow cattle to be housed in existing slatted sheds without straw bedding,...
Agri-Business
People’s attitudes towards organic farming are changing as the number of farmers in conversion grows, according to the Agricultural Consultants’...
Agri-Business
Farmers who are considering converting their enterprise to organic farming are being invited to attend an event in Co. Monaghan...
Environment
A couple with a background in overseas humanitarian work who run an organic farm in the west Cork hills have...
Organics
The deadline for funding applications for “innovative proposals” to promote the benefits of organic farming in Ireland falls this week....
Beef
Organic beef farmers supplying cattle to the organic meat processing firm Good Herdsmen have recently received their beef pricing template...
Agri Politics
Senator Victor Boyhan said he “welcomes” Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR) funding for agriculture, but wants “more transparency” on how the...
Agri-Business
Additional funding of €500,000 from the Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR) for the promotion and development of the Irish organic sector...
Rural Life
Farmers and businesses from across the agri-industry have gathered at Gurteen College in Co. Tipperary today (Thursday, July 20) for...
Agri-Business
Gurteen College is gearing up for the Energy and Farm Diversification Show that will be held there this week. Teagasc,...
Agri-Business
A seven-week public consultation process on the new strategic plan for the development of the organic sector has been opened...
Organics
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Pippa Hackett, has today (Monday, July 10)...
Agri-Business
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) is set to examine whether EU supports for organic farming are “effective and appropriate”....
Beef
Tillage is not a farming practice that would be closely associated with Co. Monaghan however this did not deter Mark...
Organics
The Agricultural Consultants Association (ACA) has appointed its second organic specialist. The association has announced that, after an internal application...
Agri-Business
The total area of agricultural land used for organic production in the European Union is increasing, new figures show today...
Rural Life
Letters are being sent to the Ceann Comhairle and an Oireachtas committee following a row in the Dáil centering on...
Agri-Business
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Senator Pippa Hackett has today (Wednesday, May...