Agri Politics
Chief vet warns of 'robbing Peter to pay Paul' for NI Brexit preparations
A shuffle underway at Dundonald House to redeploy staff to ramp up Brexit preparations has sparked concern that animal health...
Agri Politics
A shuffle underway at Dundonald House to redeploy staff to ramp up Brexit preparations has sparked concern that animal health...
Forestry
On this National Tetra Pak Tree Day (Thursday, October 1), Minister of State for land use and biodiversity Pippa Hackett says...
Agri Politics
The chairperson of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine deputy Jackie Cahill has said the committee...
Beef
The new meeting of the TB Forum, held today (Thursday, October 1), has now concluded, with little agreement over the...
Agri Politics
The first ever National Healthy Eating Guidelines for One to Four Year Olds has been welcomed by the Irish Creamery...
Agri Politics
Taoiseach Micheál Martin is being urged to stress the “very serious implications” the UK stance on the withdrawal agreement will...
Rural Life
A warning has been issued to never drink and drive after a collision between a tractor and a car –...
Forestry
On National Tetra Pak Tree Day today (Thursday, October 1) the news that production has started on a new map...
N.Ireland
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) permanent secretary Denis McMahon has admitted acting against the minister’s wishes...
Agri Politics
The European Commission has officially begun ‘infringement’ proceedings against the UK over the latter’s proposed new law that would breach...
Tillage
As potato growers have now made a big dent in the maincrop potato harvest, they are reporting reduced yields according...
Rural Life
By Paul Neilan A Cork farmer will not be prosecuted for a second time over the death of a boy...
CAP / Schemes
“It was somebody sitting behind a desktop that did this and obviously hasn’t been on the ground to see the...
Opinion
I watched with interest the first two episodes of ‘What Planet Are You On’ on RTÉ. While I welcome the...
Beef
Two livestock marts had their licences to operate suspended by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for breaches...
Dairy
The recent support for European dairy commodity prices tailed off this week with both butter and skim milk powder’s (SMP’s)...
Sheep
On Thursday last (September 24) the clearance sale of Michael Doyle’s 200-ewe flock took place at Carnew Mart. The Wexford-based...
Tillage
Farmers who have not yet applied a herbicide to oilseed rape crops should consider doing so sooner rather than later....