Dairy
The Butter Museum in Cork has announced the launch of a new suite of learning resources designed to...
Farm Safety
AgriKids has kicked off its Farm Safety Ambassador Programme, which aims to spread farm safety awareness among primary school children
Environment
Scoil Uí Ghramhnaigh based in Ráth Chairn Co. Meath has been named the winner of this year’s Nature Hero Awards.
Rural Life
The Department of Agriculture (DAFM) is seeking tenders from researchers to carry out an evaluation of the EU School Scheme in Ireland.
SuperValu and not-for-profit social enterprise Grow It Yourself (GIY) have announced the launch of their 2025 Let's GROW campaign.
The NDC has announced its winner of a special competition, 'Deck the Herd', to design the organisation’s 2024 Christmas card
The National Dairy Council (NDC) has launched a special competition to design the organisation’s 2024 Christmas card.
N.Ireland
Minister for Agriculture in Northern Ireland Andrew Muir has launched a survey on the School Milk Subsidy Scheme.
Beef
The ABP Angus Youth Challenge has been recognised for developing the skills of young people with a corporate social responsibility award.
The finalists for the 2023-2024 ABP Angus Youth Challenge include students from across four schools in Northern Ireland.
The recommended three servings a day of dairy for children cost an average of 65c, according to a new back-to-school survey.
Agri-Business
MEPs have called for more funding to support the distribution of fruit, vegetables and milk to children from nurseries to secondary schools.
Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys, helped launch Supervalu's 'Let's...
Grow it Yourself (GIY), is aiming to raise €3.2 million to support the rollout of a food education programme in primary schools.
Eoin and Róisín Corrigan have recently visited their 'Farmer Time' partner school in Wexford to reconnect children and Irish food production.
East Derry MLA Claire Sugden has expressed concern that the vital contribution of rural schools to their communities...
LMC is confirming that large numbers of schools want to host farm quality assured beef and lamb cookery demonstrations during the academic year
Ireland is to receive almost €3.27 million from the EU school fruit, vegetables and milk scheme for the 2020/2021 school year.
Ireland's biggest science fair - RDS Primary Science Fair - is bringing over 1,500 pupils together to display their creative investigations.
Opinion
Sugar Tax revenues should be used to fund a free school milk scheme, which would benefit every child in the country
Cork dairy farmer, Peter Hynes, is calling on the departments of agriculture and education to collaborate on a schools' farm safety week.
Eoin Sharkey spends more time than the average farmer on the road. A lot of the time he is accompanied by his farm animals.
The Ulster Farmers Union (UFU) has launched its 2017 schools competition in association with Bank of Ireland Open Farm Weekend and ASDA.
