Kathleen Rowley

Keep moo-ving moo-ving, top award for cow pedometer innovation
Keep moo-ving moo-ving, top award for cow pedometer innovation

World View: A cow pedometer experiment to monitor behaviour has won an international science award. Researchers from Scotland’s Rural College...

Whiskey in the jar for Tullamore, work begins on €35m new distillery
Whiskey in the jar for Tullamore, work begins on €35m new distillery

Whiskey production is coming back to Tullamore for the first time in 60 years with the official turning of the...

Innovation challenges for family farms, minister
Innovation challenges for family farms, minister

Speaking yesterday at a meeting of EU Agriculture Ministers in Lithuania, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon...

Cream always rises to the top
Cream always rises to the top

Valerie Kingston of Glenilen Farm talks to AgriLand about the company’s meteoric success. Glenilen Farm is a dairy farm based...

Award-winning heifer-rearing farm walk today
Award-winning heifer-rearing farm walk today

A farm walk is talking place today on farm of Jim and Teresa White of Clonlahy, Cloneen, Clonmel, Co Tipperary, National Heifer Rearing...

17 enforcement orders served on food businesses in August
17 enforcement orders served on food businesses in August

Some 15 closure orders and two prohibition orders were served on food businesses during the month of August for breaches...

‘Maximising grass growth and use is top priority’
‘Maximising grass growth and use is top priority’

The View from Northern Ireland: Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) President Harry Sinclair has said as autumn rolls in the top...

New fertiliser placement option for Claydon Hybrid
New fertiliser placement option for Claydon Hybrid

Claydon, who will be attending this year’s National Ploughing Championships, has developed a new fertiliser application system for the Claydon...

New Holland combine in comfort with CX8000, CX7000
New Holland combine in comfort with CX8000, CX7000

The latest Elevation super combines have been unveiled by New Holland recently. The CX7000 and CX8000 claim to be the world’s...

More pressure on sheep trade reported
More pressure on sheep trade reported

The sheep trade faced further pressure this week as the increase in supplies evident over the past few weeks doesn’t appear to...

Newgrange strikes gold
Newgrange strikes gold

IN FOCUS: AgriLand talks to Jack Rogers of Newgrange Gold on the challenges of promoting a new innovative product. Overlooking...

UN Food Price Index shows further decline
UN Food Price Index shows further decline

The United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organisation Food Price Index averaged 205.9 points in July, 2 per cent below its...

China’s growing appetite for beef creates opportunities for key suppliers, Rabobank
China’s growing appetite for beef creates opportunities for key suppliers, Rabobank

Beef consumption in China has risen steadily over the past few years, according to a new Rabobank report. It found...

11 per cent increase in potato crops in Northern Ireland
11 per cent increase in potato crops in Northern Ireland

The View from Northern Ireland: The preliminary results of the June 2013 agricultural census for Northern Ireland have been released...

Fonterra ‘relived about all clear from Clostridium botulinum’
Fonterra ‘relived about all clear from Clostridium botulinum’

World View: New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) announced today that additional independent testing has established there was no...

Fonterra ups forecast milk price 30c to $7.80
Fonterra ups forecast milk price 30c to $7.80

World View: New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra has lifted its forecast farmgate milk price for the 2014  by 30 cents to...

Thousands flocked to Iverk Show
Thousands flocked to Iverk Show

Thousands went to Pilltown’s Iverk Show in Kilkenny yesterday. The Iverk Show, which marked its 187th year, is one of...

Pet agri-food business expands into Finland
Pet agri-food business expands into Finland

  An Irish dog-lover 39-year-old Leonard Greene has turned his passion for canine health into a new business, making nutritional...