Beef
Upward movement in beef prices, as supplies tighten further
Beef cattle numbers have tightened considerably in recent weeks and, in a bid to secure supplies, procurement managers are offering...
Beef
Beef cattle numbers have tightened considerably in recent weeks and, in a bid to secure supplies, procurement managers are offering...
Sheep
Easter is fast approaching and all of the major sheepmeat processors are now offering official quotes for spring lambs. Last...
Agri-Business
The IFA has lost a total of 3,682 members in 2016, while the association’s income also fell by over €1.2m,...
Machinery
Hi-Spec Engineering, based in Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow, is a well-known innovator in the farm machinery space. Its ejector-type (push-off) Kompactor...
Agri-Business
Shares in Huishan Dairy Holdings, China’s biggest dairy company, plunged downward by 85% on Friday wiping close to $4 billion from its...
CAP / Schemes
The ‘complexity’ of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine’s explanatory document for the BPS and Greening scheme has...
Rural Life
The bright sunshine in many areas of the country didn’t bring a smile to everyone’s face this weekend. With what...
Beef
Dawn Meats aims to become Europe’s most sustainable meat company by setting ‘ambitious’ targets to reduce energy use for 2025....
CAP / Schemes
A county-by-county breakdown of the payments completed under GLAS and AEOS has been released by the Minister for Agriculture, Food...
CAP / Schemes
The Irish Natura & Hill Farmers Association (INHFA) has welcomed recent action taken by Tipperary farmers with regard to the...
Beef
China’s lifting of its temporary ban on Brazilian beef has been described as a “categorical statement of the quality of Brazilian...
Environment
The recent mild weather is set to continue, but periods of heavy rain are expected later in the week, according...
Machinery
Supertino, a manufacturer based in northern Italy, is testing its newly-developed 100% electric-powered, self-propelled diet feeder. Fitted with a 100kW electric...
Machinery
The John Deere Horst factory in the Netherlands has produced its 1,000th self-propelled sprayer – a 4,000L capacity R4040i. This special...
Opinion
By Luke Ming Flanagan, MEP (Member of the European Parliament) for the Midlands–North-West constituency Under pressure from food scandals abroad,...
Machinery
German-based Horsch is best known here in Ireland for its cultivation and drilling equipment – via main agent Kellys of Borris...
Machinery
The French-built Dangreville ‘intelligent’ spreader can automatically inflate and deflate its tyres, without the operator having to intervene. Tyre pressure (on...
Beef
Coccidiosis has been on the increase in recent years. This is often due to a late spring, with the resultant...