Agri-Business
IMPACT to meet with agri management as industrial action continues
IMPACT representatives and management at the Department of Agriculture are set to meet in Dublin tomorrow to discuss industrial action...
Agri-Business
Agri-Business
Forestry proving a very attractive long-term farm investment
Some 20,000 farmers are involved in forestry enterprises and this means more than half of Ireland’s forests are now privately owned...
Agri-Business
Steady uptake of WMP milk contracts with Glanbia
More than 50 per cent of Wexford Milk Producers (WMP) have signed milk contracts with Glanbia Ingredients Ireland Limited (GIIL)...
Agri-Business
EU Farm Commissioner looks ahead
Courtesy of his speech to the Green Week event in Berlin, EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos took the opportunity of looking...
Agri-Business
Agri-food sector awareness of nanotechnology low, study
The awareness of the uses of nanotechnology in the agri-food sector was found to be low in a recent study...
Agri-Business
'Budget vital to combat milk, feed and fertiliser risks'
The expansion process at farm level will put a significant strain on scarce cash resources, cautioned Laurence Shalloo, of Teagasc...
Agri-Business
Cork man dies on farm
Gardai and the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) are investigating the death of a 26-year-old man who died in a...
Agri-Business
World food prices in 2013 third highest on record
For the year just gone by the 2013 the World food Price Index averaged 209.9 points, the third highest annual value on...
Agri-Business
Farming in partnership, the view from Cork
Cork-based farmer David Jennings spoke on his own experience of farming in partnership at today’s Positive Farming conference in Clonmel,...
Agri-Business
GIIL investment – jewel in Enterprise Ireland’s agri-food crown for 2013
The commitment by Glanbia Ingredients Ireland Ltd (GIIL) to establish a state of the art processing facility at Belview, on...
Agri-Business
Reflections of the 2014 Oxford Farming Conference
There was a tremendous turnout of delegates from this side of the Irish Sea attending the recent Oxford Farming Conference....
Agri-Business
Calf rearing and antibiotics
Two of the speakers at a recent calf rearing conference touched on the sensitive subject of treating calves with antibiotics....
Agri-Business
Bank to work with customers affected by bad weather
AIB has indicated to Agriland that it will be announcing its lending commitments to agriculture and to Irish business as...
Agri-Business
Demand responsible for overall increase in world wholesale dairy prices
According to DairyCo, dairy commodity production continues to perform fairly well for the world’s key exporters. Supplies in the US...
Agri-Business
Live exports increased by 11% to €240m in 2013
Stronger cattle and sheep exports helped boost the value of livestock exports in 2013. For the year the value of...
Agri-Business
Agri-food exports key for economic recovery, EU commissioner
Agri-food exports, notably quality products rather then commodities, are vital for helping Europe emerge from economic crisis, as we are...
Agri-Business
Price a key driver in export boom of dairy and beef
A 15 per cent increase in the value of dairy exports, which has exceeded €3bn for the first time ever,...
Agri-Business
Aspirations for rural development in 2014
Teresa Canavan took over as CEO of the Rural Development Council (RDC) in Northern Ireland last September. As she looks...
