Agri-Business
Irish organic sector worth €109.5m; up 9% in 2015
The Irish organic sector, after a lacklustre five-year period, is up 9% in 2015 to €109.5m, according to Stephanie Moe,...
Agri-Business
The Irish organic sector, after a lacklustre five-year period, is up 9% in 2015 to €109.5m, according to Stephanie Moe,...
Agri-Business
The current annual organic certification process is not necessary and should be changed, according to Padraic Finnegan, Chairman of the Organic...
Agri-Business
The Soil Association in the UK is targeting a 6% increase in organic food sales during the month of September....
Agri-Business
The European Council of Agriculture has reached agreement on a general approach for a regulation on organic farming. The agreement...
Dairy
Installing two milking robots on a Swedish farm has given the owners more time with their children they say. Carina...
Agri-Business
Over 800 applications to the Organic Farming Scheme have been received by the Department of Agriculture, which, it says, is a...
Agri Politics
An informal meeting of EU Agriculture Ministers will take place this week with discussions set to be centred around organic...
Rural Life
University College Cork’s MSc Organic Horticulture has been short-listed at the forthcoming Postgraduate Course of the Year Awards. The course...
Agri Politics
Fonterra has announced that it will expand its organic milk business to help meet growing demand. This decision follows Fonterra’s...
Agri-Business
New proposals to lessen the cost of organic certification for small scale producers form part of an EU Commission regulation...
Agri-Business
Teagasc will run two organic courses on organic production in January. The courses will take place in Teagasc Ballyhaise and...
Beef
Despite the recession, sales of organic foods in Ireland has stabilised at €98 million per year, a recent Teagasc organic...
Dairy
Last year’s growth in organic dairy retail sales appears to have turned, with milk sales firmly in decline since March...
Agri-Business
The organic customer in Italy tends to be less concerned with a product’s country of origin, according to Claire Farrell...
Agri-Business
The deadline for entries for the National Organic Awards is this Friday, September 5. The Awards will take place in...
Agri-Business
The National Organic Food Fair will be held on Sunday, September 14 in Marlay Park, Dublin. This is the second...
Opinion
Last week saw the European Commission publish a report, highlighting the growth of the EU’s organic sector. I think, however,...
Agri-Business
In the last decade, both the number of organic farms and the area dedicated to organic farming have grown by 50%...