Rural Life
How to plan the best route to the 2016 Balmoral Show
Large crowds are expected at the 148th Balmoral Show which takes place in Lisburn next week from May 11 to...
Rural Life
Large crowds are expected at the 148th Balmoral Show which takes place in Lisburn next week from May 11 to...
Agri-Business
Since it’s launch in October 2014, over a quarter of all lending by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) has...
Dairy
At this early stage of the dairy price recovery, it’s very much a case of two steps forward, one step back,...
Other
Lakeland Dairies acquisition of Country Down-based Fane Valley Dairies was a prudent move in light of a potential Brexit in...
N.Ireland
A plan to allow dairy cooperatives and farmers to agree to cut milk production on a temporary basis is losing...
Agri-Business
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny has announced Cork TD Micheal Creed as his Minister for Agriculture. It comes following a day...
Agri-Business
Fine Gael and a group of independent TD’s have today agreed on a draft programme for Government which has seen...
Beef
IFA National Livestock Chairman Angus Woods said the Beef Data and Genomics Scheme for sucklers should be reopened immediately to...
Agri-Business
Fine Gael and a host of independents have agreed on a programme for government after days of intensive negotiations which...
CAP / Schemes
Over 8,000 farmers were in receipt of Farm Assist payments during March, according to the Department of Social Protection. In...
Agri-Business
Agri-food exports to the UK could lose €233m this year if the British pound continues to weaken at the same...
Rural Life
Gardai are investigating a second farm death in the space of a week as a farmer in his 70s has...
Dairy
The guts of a quarter of a billion litres of milk will be sold through fixed price schemes this year,...
Beef
Beef cattle supplies are continuing to tighten with just 28,751 head slaughtered last week, recent figures from the Department of...
Environment
There’s a mild weekend ahead and while there will be some thundery showers on Saturday, Met Eireann has forecast warm...
Agri-Business
County Chairmen from the five Connacht counties, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo and Leitrim, will today be voting for a Connacht...
Sheep
Sheep farming is a very low margin sector and farmers cannot afford price hits of up to €15/head over a...
Beef
There has been some ease in the implementation of age and weight cuts at beef factories around the country in...