Beef
How did we arrive at young bull crisis - Dawn Meats
The crisis in the young bull market was a hot topic at a Teagasc Livestock meeting in Kilkenny last night....
Agri-Business
Agri-Business
Tesco announces major supply deal with Kerry Foods
Tesco announced a major supply deal with Kerry Foods this week, which will be supplying the retailer with products for...
Agri-Business
Greencore make promising start to 2014
Well known food group Greencore announced a positive start to the new year with revenue up for the 13 weeks...
Agri-Business
Middle East has huge potential for growth
Bord Bia recently announced the appointment of Michael Hussey as Manager, Middle East Region. Based in Bord Bia’s newest office in...
Dairy
US dairy expert questions milk price:feed ratio
What is the barrier to selling more milk on your dairy? That was the question posed by US independent dairy nutritionist...
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
Decision on co-funding rural development imminent
A decision on the proposed co-funding of the next Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 (RDP) is imminent. Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney...
Agri-Business
China’s one-child policy shift, implications for the infant formula market
Starting in early 2014, China will relax the current one-child policy. China’s family planning laws, first introduced in the 1970s,...
