Agri-Business
Fertiliser reduction will be focus of first carbon-budget term - DAFM
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) will focus on reducing nitrous oxide emissions in agriculture – mainly...
Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) will focus on reducing nitrous oxide emissions in agriculture – mainly...
Agri-Business
In advance of an upcoming vote in the European Parliament on animal transport regulations, the Irish Creamery and Milk Suppliers’...
Agri-Business
Cultivate chairman and former president of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), Joe Healy, has confirmed that the organisation’s ‘fertiliser loan’...
Sheep News
Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) sheep chairman, Sean Dennehy, has said that recent market conditions for sheep trade “look set to...
Beef News
There was strong demand for quality at Carrigallen Mart’s weekly suckler sale yesterday, Monday, January 17. The sale got underway...
Dairy
Dairygold has moved to increase its milk price for supplies in the month of December, following the trend already underway...
N.Ireland
Animal Health and Welfare NI (AHWNI) has confirmed that additional Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) control measures are likely to be...
Pig/Poultry
The pig sector “has never faced such a crisis as we are in now”, members of the Irish Farmers’ Association...
Rural Life
A working group is to be set up to examine the impact of an EU ban on the use of...
N.Ireland
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) is indicating that the new suckler payment for Northern Ireland will be set between £140...
Environment
The agri-food sector has been identified as one of the most-impacted sectors in terms of employment from the low-carbon transition,...
Property
A land holding in Co. Meath, which includes 69ac of “excellent quality” grassland, has been placed on the market with...
Agri-Business
The European Commission has adopted a ban on food additive titanium dioxide which will come into effect this summer as...
Rural Life
Several inmates in a US prison have filed a lawsuit claiming that they were deceived into taking ivermectin as a...
Dairy News
The board of Aurivo has increased November’s milk price by 1c to 40c/L for December, including standard bonuses and VAT,...
Dairy
Former director of Teagasc Prof. Gerry Boyle has been appointed to the board of dairy business Arrabawn. Boyle has been...
Agri Politics
Northern Ireland’s food industry leaders have called on the Northern Ireland Executive to publish the Independent Strategic Review of the...
N.Ireland
Many milk producers believe that the carbon footprint of Jersey cows is low, relative to that achieved by production animals...