N.Ireland
The CAFRE has led a farm innovation visit of 20 Northern Irish farmers to the Netherlands to learn about ammonial reduction innovations.
Agri-Business
The European Commission has given the green light for the acquisition of a Belgian dairy business by the Netherlands-based Royal A-ware.
Rural Life
Every spring, the Dutch flock to farms to watch 'the dance of the cows' (koeiendans), which occurs when cows are first let out to pasture
Dairy
Dutch academic Leonie Cornips uses the discipline of linguistics to prove cows can communicate with humans and eachother
Environment
A court in the Hague has ruled in favour of Greenpeace in their landmark legal battle against the Dutch state over nitrogen emissions
Dutch dairy cooperative FrieslandCampina and Belgian company Milcobel have announced their...
The EU approved a further €50m to compensate Dutch farmers for voluntarily closing livestock farming sites in nature conservation areas.
The European Commission has approved a €700 million Dutch scheme to compensate farmers for voluntarily closing livestock farming sites
Dairy News
One of the country's leading calf buyers has said "new markets will be needed" for the over 100,000 calves exported to the Netherlands...
Kelleher said he is "deeply concerned" at the level of "misinformation" being spread in the Netherlands about Irish calf imports.
The European Council has today appointed Wopke Hoekstra from The Netherlands as a new European Commissioner.
Livestock farming in the Netherlands has become "too input dependent", the Dutch Minister for Nature and Nitrogen Policy has said.
The current agriculture system in the Netherlands "has reached its limits" and change is needed according to Rabobank.
Machinery Focus
Any notions that organic farmers are somewhat detached from the mainstream and place idealism above...
Police in the Netherlands have confirmed that a number of shots were fired during a tractor protest last night (Tuesday, July 5).
Today we will take a look back at one of the Dutch dairy farms AgriLand had the privilege of visiting whilst on a trip to the Netherlands.
Agri Politics
Some 400 tractors have gathered in The Hague to protest the "negative image" being spread about farmers in terms of the environment.
Opinion
The results of the last two GDT events should give re-assurance to farmers that milk prices will remain reasonably steady
Beef
With the calving season beginning to kick into gear, the Irish export trade is focusing keenly on markets for Irish calves.
Dutch dairy farmers could see the payment for milk produced from grazed grass increase as FrieslandCampina plan to increase its premium.
The Netherlands has been cleared to export beef to the US market, making it the third EU country after Ireland and Lithuania to gain access.
The Dutch government recently introduced new phosphate limits which have dairy farmers in the country concerned.
Irish beef was up 6% to 41,000t and is worth over €165m in the Dutch market in 2014 according to Bord Bia.
