Opinion
Cross compliance and farm safety should be formally linked
Both ICSA and ICMSA have taken a wholly unacceptable position, where farm safety is concerned. The past week has seen...
Opinion
Both ICSA and ICMSA have taken a wholly unacceptable position, where farm safety is concerned. The past week has seen...
Pig/Poultry
The popularity of poultry products, both fresh and chilled, increased significantly last year, according to Bord Bia. Some 52,000t (product...
Environment
The dairy farming sector in Northern Ireland has continued to reduce its carbon footprint, a report relating to greenhouse gas...
CAP / Schemes
Farmers can now submit applications with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for Tranche 6 of the Targeted...
Pig/Poultry
The Department of Agriculture has announced the confirmation of a second case of Avian Influenza (bird flu) H5N8 in Ireland....
Agri-Business
A coalition of Irish farmers, environmentalists, trade unionists and small business organisations have called on MEPs to oppose the Comprehensive...
Agri-Business
LIC believes the contract agreement it will be asking farmers to sign is a necessary requirement, ensuring it can deliver...
Rural Life
An investor who purchased a 1,250ac farm in Cambridgeshire in the UK is now searching for a contractor to take...
Dairy
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) is asking farmers to report calves born with genetic defects in order to identify...
Beef
Farmers selling beef cattle this year will still have to face the prospect of factory price cuts on overweight carcasses....
Dairy
Glanbia has announced that it will pay its suppliers 30c/L including VAT for December manufacturing milk supplies. Glanbia Ingredients Ireland...
CAP / Schemes
The ongoing delays on GLAS payments are “totally unacceptable” and the Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, has been called on...
Dairy
European dairy farmers are to stage a day of action later this month in Brussels to demand a permanent crisis instrument...
Rural Life
Farmers in parts of the country arrived out to a snow-covered yards and fields this morning, as temperatures dropped last...
Environment
The Department of Agriculture has been called on by the Irish Cattle and Sheep Association (ICSA) to adopt a more...
Machinery
Irish buyers continued to compete with continental and domestic buyers at UK agricultural machinery sales as stock levels fall. Plenty...
Pig/Poultry
China will remain a key market for Irish pigmeat exports in 2017, according to Bord Bia, but much of the...
Tillage
Keeping to a maximum speed of 10km/hr and maintaining a boom height of 50cm to 75cm when spraying crops was...