Agri-Business
O Cuiv calls for TB testing reprieve for flooded farmers
All general TB testing should be temporally deferred in all flood affected areas across the country, according to Eamon O Cuiv,...
Agri-Business
All general TB testing should be temporally deferred in all flood affected areas across the country, according to Eamon O Cuiv,...
Agri Politics
The European Union has committed close to €161m to combat animal diseases and zoonoses in 2016. This is to support eradication,...
Beef
The Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, is being called on to reassess his most recent offer on the TB compensation...
Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture has seen its expenditure on disease eradication fall significantly this year. Total expenditure on disease eradication...
Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture has spent €6m less on disease eradication so far this year, according to the Minister for Agriculture,...
Rural Life
The Dublin to Galway Greenway, TB and craft beer brewing all feature on tonight’s episode of Ear to the Ground....
Dairy
Herds of 150 cattle or more are 50% more likely to suffer a bovine TB outbreak than those with herds of...
Agri-Business
Over 4,500 deer hunting applications have been made so far this year, according to the Minister for Arts, Heritage and...
Agri-Business
New Department of Agriculture proposals for the future have been heavily criticised by the IFA and labelled as ‘insulting’ to...
Rural Life
18% of deer tested in a pocket of Co. Wicklow have tested confirmed positive for TB, according to the Department...
Agri-Business
The Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney has been called on to pass back the savings from the TB Eradication Scheme...
Rural Life
Former guitarist with rock band Queen – Brian May – is to challenge the lawfulness of UK badger cull licences,...
Beef
Badger culling is to shortly begin in the second year of a test, vaccinate or remove (TVR) wildlife intervention research project,...
Dairy
The TB Income Supplement Scheme as it stands right now is not fit for purpose, according to the President of...
Agri-Business
Badgers may shun cattle, but it’s not enough to save them from being culled, according to the Minister for Agriculture...
Environment
The levels of bovine TB have remained disappointingly high in Wicklow when compared with the progress achieved nationally, according to...
Rural Life
Tom Byrne, a beef farmer from Co. Wicklow says he has been plagued by deer on his farm for years...
Dairy
There is little evidence that badgers and dairy cows interact with each other directly, according to Dr Declan O’Mahony, from...