Pig/Poultry
Hogan acknowledges problems in pigmeat sector
The substantial drop in pigmeat prices over the last number of months has been acknowledged by the European Commissioner for...
Pig/Poultry
The substantial drop in pigmeat prices over the last number of months has been acknowledged by the European Commissioner for...
Environment
The European Commission will provide a ‘letter of comfort’ to the Department of Agriculture so as to enable it to...
Agri-Business
It is not acceptable that in the context of energy prices falling considerably in recent months there are proposals to...
Agri Politics
The guidelines for farming Producer Organisations (PO) have been launched by the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Phil Hogan. The 2013...
Dairy
Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan has said that he’s not Jesus Christ when it comes to dealing to the impending superlevy...
Rural Life
The suggestion by Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan that EU farm payments might be cut where farms don’t meet farm safety...
Agri Politics
The latest Brussels Briefing on Agriculture from AGRA FACTS journalists Rose O’Donovan and Ed Bray provides an update on the latest...
Agri-Business
EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan must establish an official auditing body with the power to scrutinise the buying and operational...
Agri Politics
The European Commission has today approved the first three of 118 Rural Development Programmes. EU Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner...
Agri Politics
The reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) could become a bureaucratic monster the new EU Agriculture Commissioner Hogan has been warned. European...
Environment
Plans for a €54m investment in Ireland, producing 40 million litres of motor fuel per annum from plastic, are underway....
Agri Politics
Simplification of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a key first priority for EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development...
Agri-Business
The European Commission has adopted a ‘Partnership Agreement’ with Ireland setting down the strategy for the optimal use of European...
Environment
ICMSA President John Comer has said that immediate movement is needed in getting final approval for the Irish Rural Development...
Opinion
There are important differences between farm-level responses to disappointing prime beef cattle prices in the UK and Republic of Ireland...
Beef
EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan has no direct jurisdiction over the competition practises followed by Irish beef processing businesses, according...
Beef
Comments by the EU Agriculture Commissioner, Phil Hogan, that farmers are being ‘squeezed’ ignore the reality of the European marketplace,...
Agri Politics
EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan has confirmed that a compensation package has been agreed for the Baltic States, in the...