Agri-Business
Have you got what it takes for Lakeland Dairies?
The major cross-border dairy processing co-operative, Lakeland Dairies, has established a dedicated graduate development programme aimed at upcoming graduates from disciplines...
Agri-Business
Agri-Business
New CAP to boost bank lending, BoI
Bank of Ireland is in receipt of more than 1,500 farming loan applications a month. This is according to its...
Agri-Business
Farmland prices remain steady as dairy drives demand
The average price paid for farmland across the country in 2013 was €10,500 per acre, which is remarkably similar to...
Agri-Business
Farming anti-fraud campaign under way
Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Michelle O’Neill has this week reminded the public of the existence of a fraud hotline...
Agri-Business
Ammonia leak probe under way at Kepak
Kepak is investigating a minor leak of ammonia at its largest meat processing plants in the country. The incident occurred...
Agri-Business
Good news for farmers in Subway expansion drive
Restaurant chain Subway has this morning set out ambitious plans to increase the number of its stores in Ireland by...
Agri-Business
Dairygold rewards suppliers and customers with €7.5m year-end bonuses
Dairygold, at its January board meeting last Friday, 17 January 2014, finalised €7.5m bonuses for its suppliers and customers for...
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
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....
