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Tillage focus: Organic vegetables from the farm gate to your Christmas dinner plate

December 22, 2018

Liam Ryan is in a sector where demand is outstripping supply and keeping up with that demand is his biggest challenge. This year the…

How much are vegetables retailing for in the supermarkets?

December 20, 2018

Rural Life

Following on from the Irish Farmers’ Association’s (IFA’s) protest outside Marks & Spencer last week over the low-cost selling of vegetables, AgriLand decided to…

Tillage focus: Effect of drought to hit the veg shelves in the coming weeks

August 21, 2018

Tillage

Paul Brophy is one of a small number of large-scale broccoli growers in the country. His vegetable business is solely broccoli and for…

Tillage focus: This Irish man is planting vegetables in the North Carolina hills

June 4, 2018

Tillage

Bottomleys Evergeens & Farm is a family run company, based at Glade Valley, North Carolina – beside the Blueridge Mountains – and sells…

‘The demand for organic vegetables is growing year-on-year’

April 8, 2018

Rural Life

Having grown up in housing estates on Dublin’s northside, Rory and Sheila Magorrian found themselves transplanted to north Cork where they now run…

Opening farm shop ‘best thing I ever did’

December 29, 2017

Rural Life

When John Graham from Raphoe opened a farm shop in December 2014, it didn’t just benefit him financially but also psychologically. “When I…

Let’s hope the supermarkets don’t crash fresh produce prices this Christmas

December 17, 2017

Opinion

The run-up to Christmas is normally the time when Irish supermarkets go for broke and slash fresh produce prices. Invariably, both vegetables and…

Is a ‘perfect storm’ brewing for Irish potato growers?

November 12, 2017

Opinion

If ever Bord Bia needed to come up with an effective marketing campaign for the potato industry, this could well be the year.…

Dairy wholesale prices rise 20% annually; fruit and veg costs decline

June 26, 2017

Wholesale prices on dairy products increased by 20.5% year-on-year in May, helping to drive up overall factory gate costs, according to the latest…

Astronauts have grown cabbage on the International Space Station

February 20, 2017

Astronauts have successfully grown cabbage on the International Space Station, having previously grown lettuce and flowers. NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson planted and grew Tokyo…