Sheep
Innovative Irish wool project awarded more than €500,000 in funding
Springwool, a Munster Technological University-led project aimed at encouraging innovation in the Irish wool industry has secured €574,683 in funding...
wool feasibility study
Sheep
Calls for 'immediate' shearing supports for sheep farmers
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Minister of State Pippa Hackett have been called on to support...
Sheep News
Independent TD calls for support scheme for sheep shearing
Independent TD for Galway East, Seán Canney has called on the government to establish a scheme to support farmers in...
Agri-Business
Wool feasibility report 'offers very little to farmers' - IFA
The long-awaited wool feasibility report, published today (Friday, July 1) by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM)...
Sheep News
ICSA: Wool has been undervalued for far too long
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) has welcomed today’s (Friday, July 1) publication of the long-awaited wool feasibility...
Sheep News
Wool feasibility report recommends new industry-led council
The wool feasibility report has recommended the establishment of an industry-led all-island council to champion the Irish-grown wool brand. The...
Sheep News
'Sheep sector losing €10.8m in value of wool compared to 1988' - Comiskey
The sheep sector is losing €10.8 million annually with regard to the value of wool compared to back in 1988....
Agri-Business
Minister's 'response gives life to the cliché pulling the wool over our eyes'
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, wouldn’t be drawn on when, specifically, the long-awaited wool feasibility study...