Rural Life
Hogan threatens to take grants off farmers if they don't improve safety record
Farmers have been warned that they could lose EU grants if they don’t improve safety standards by Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan....
Rural Life
Farmers have been warned that they could lose EU grants if they don’t improve safety standards by Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan....
Agri-Business
Second year students from Bandon Grammar School’s project looks at the effects of raw milk on asthma sufferers at the...
Rural Life
A group of students from Ferbane, Co. Offaly are taking their invention – the alert-cow calving – to the BT...
Rural Life
A group of students from Salesian Secondary College, Pallaskenry, Co. Limerick, is exhibiting at the Young Scientist a project to...
Rural Life
A seed harvesting kit for subsistence farmers in developing countries will be on show at the BT Young Scientist in...
Rural Life
The ESB is reminding farmers to be safe this Christmas and to never take risks with electricity. It says that in...
Rural Life
Laois County Council are to consider paying farmers to use their tractors to spread salt on local roads, as requested...
Rural Life
Stuck for last minute gift ideas this Christmas for the farmer in your life? Or, perhaps, you haven’t even started...
Rural Life
What’s a more ideal present to give a farmer than a pair of wellies? Here are a few choices we...
EU
The European Commission has today approved the first three of 118 Rural Development Programmes. EU Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner...
Rural Life
It will be more and more important for farmers to be IT and technology savvy, according to the UK’s Parliamentary...
Rural Life
The heartbroken father of an ‘extraordinary little fellow’ who died in a farm death on his farm has told of...
Rural Life
County maps have been published online today that identify the homes, businesses and schools where commercial providers will deliver high-speed...
Rural Life
Agri Aware is looking to overhaul the Leaving Certificate Agricultural Science paper. Agri Aware it to work closely with its...
Rural Life
An eight-year-old girl has become the latest person to die in a farming accident this year, bringing the total number...
Rural Life
The Revenue Commissioners have taken samples from a number of filling stations that it has claimed may have been involved...
National Ploughing Championships
It has been estimated that 30,000 hurleys have been sold at this year’s National Ploughing Championships. And while slow-growing ash is...
National Ploughing Championships
Retail Excellence Ireland (REI) launched a strategy for rural retailing at this week’s National Ploughing Championships. The document has been...