Arable
The reform of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) topped the agenda at the ‘Agronomy and Business Management Conference’ this week....
Agri-Business
Bank of Ireland is in receipt of more than 1,500 farming loan applications a month. This is according to its...
Sheep
Future agri-environmental schemes offer the opportunity for claimants with commonage land to receive slightly higher payments than a non-commonage farmer...
The average price paid for farmland across the country in 2013 was €10,500 per acre, which is remarkably similar to...
Kepak is investigating a minor leak of ammonia at its largest meat processing plants in the country. The incident occurred...
Environment
ESB Networks currently imports more than 15,000 timber poles a year due to insufficient supply from Coillte as a result of...
Restaurant chain Subway has this morning set out ambitious plans to increase the number of its stores in Ireland by...
IMPACT representatives and management at the Department of Agriculture are set to meet in Dublin tomorrow to discuss industrial action...
The roll out of the voluntary Johne’s disease control programme for dairy herds across Ireland is now well under way....
Some 20,000 farmers are involved in forestry enterprises and this means more than half of Ireland’s forests are now privately owned...
More than 50 per cent of Wexford Milk Producers (WMP) have signed milk contracts with Glanbia Ingredients Ireland Limited (GIIL)...
Ireland’s new Green Low-Carbon Agri-environment Scheme (GLAS) payment must include organic farming as a core element and, in particular, organic...
The expansion process at farm level will put a significant strain on scarce cash resources, cautioned Laurence Shalloo, of Teagasc...
World News
The View from Europe: MEPs this week called for a review of food production chains, step up checks and revise...
Dairy
UK farmer Ed Dale spoke at today’s Positive Farming conference on the importance of people management for farm enterprises in...
Land drainage is seen as one of the most important components for achievement of Food Harvest 2020 goals. This is...
Cork-based farmer David Jennings spoke on his own experience of farming in partnership at today’s Positive Farming conference in Clonmel,...
“The huge increase in supplies of natural gas and oil in the US and Canada will probably pose a strong...
