Agri-Business
Decline in food exports weakens growth in UK market
Export growth to the UK fell sharply from 12% in 2015 to just 2% last year as demand for Irish...
Agri-Business
Export growth to the UK fell sharply from 12% in 2015 to just 2% last year as demand for Irish...
Sheep
Ireland exported an estimated 50,000t of sheep meat valued at €240 million in 2016, with 60% of total exports heading...
Environment
The shackles of production were lifted on Irish dairy farms in 2015, with the EU-wide abolition of milk quotas. In...
Rural Life
Teagasc horticulturalists have designed a show garden for the Bloom Festival to raise awareness of the mission of suicide prevention...
Agri-Business
The exclusion of farmers’ own labour costs from the National Farm Survey is a topic for much discussion and debate...
Beef
How farmers choose and manage their heifers are some of the most important decisions that will be made on farms...
Rural Life
Friday, May 26, is the deadline for agriculture college full-time course applications, according to Tony Pettit, Head of Education in Teagasc....
Rural Life
Dairygold, in conjunction with Teagasc, is set to host a farm safety information day at Mallow Racecourse. In response to the...
Grass
Teagasc’s Tom Ryan is concerned about what he regards as the over-filling of many silos (pits) on Irish livestock farms....
Beef
The replacement index, and particularly the benefits of five-star cows, has been a topic of debate in recent weeks with...
Tillage
Good seed-bed preparation is proving to be a critical factor on cereal farms in the south-east this spring, according to...
CAP / Schemes
‘Unjustified’ fees being charged by Teagasc for farmers participating in the Knowledge Transfer (KT) Groups have been called into question...
Dairy
Ireland is still one of the lowest cash cost producers of milk internationally, according to a recent Teagasc report on...
Agri-Business
Agricultural economists from over 24 countries met in Dublin yesterday, April 24, to discuss the implications of Brexit on agriculture in...
Dairy
Grassland quality must be maintained as cows enter the 2017 breeding season,” according to Ballina-based Teagasc dairy advisor Brendan Garry....
Tillage
A recent finding suggesting that the barley disease ramularia is potentially resistant to three of the main groups of fungicide...
Dairy
The application deadline for the Teagasc Professional Diploma in Dairy Farm Management is getting close. The deadline is next Friday,...
Beef
Ireland’s first sale of genotyped four and five-star commercial breeding heifers will take place in Ballybay Mart next Saturday. The...