Horticulture
Organics can provide pathway to viability and succession
The opportunities presented by organic farming as a route to boost farm viability and facilitate succession in this country are...
Horticulture
The opportunities presented by organic farming as a route to boost farm viability and facilitate succession in this country are...
Horticulture
11 organic growers in the Irish horticulture sector saw more than a two-fold increase in sales value as part of...
Forestry
The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Pippa Hackett, has said that progress...
Rural Life
A Kerry farmer has said that writing a book was a therapeutic way to deal with the fears around the...
Environment
An Irish MEP has claimed that Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie MacConalogue is “asleep at the wheel”...
Dairy
Organic milk producers in Germany currently face a 24% shortfall in relation to costs, according to a new report. The...
CAP / Schemes
A European organic food and farming movement has warned of “insufficient ambitions” in CAP strategic plans. IFOAM Organics Europe has...
Agri-Business
Proposed solutions for dealing with agricultural emissions are “missing the target” according to the National Organic Training Skillnet (NOTS). NOTS...
Environment
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Pippa Hackett, has published a video showing how a farm on the...
Agri-Business
Ireland’s ambitious plan to quadruple the organic farming sector must be matched by the same ambition to source and secure...
Dairy Focus
In this week’s Dairy Focus, Agriland made the trip to the ‘Rebel’ county to meet Seamus Ahern, on his organic dairy farm located...
biodiversity
Ireland’s expenditure on organic farming would require a 10-fold increase in order to help meet the European Union’s (EU) 25%...
Environment
“Apathy, that verges on hostility, pervades every aspect” of the development of the organic sector in Ireland, according to Sinn...
Environment
“Real, comprehensive support for the organic-farming sector; ambitious, impactful eco-schemes; and a new attitude to scrub and tree integration into...
Rural Life
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is being urged to prioritise new entrants to the organics sector, rather...
Agri Politics
The Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine will resume its discussion on organic farming this week. Taking place...
Environment
The chairman of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) Organic Project team, Nigel Renaghan, is calling for the Organic Farming Scheme...
Agri Politics
Organic farming will take centre stage at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food, and the Marine’s meeting today (Tuesday,...