Agri-Business
Global food prices falling but meat prices continue to rise
While the latest food price index from the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation for August fell for the fifth consecutive...
Agri Food
Agri-Business
Food safety boss says it’s time to put aside 'irrational fears of GM technology'
The Chief Executive of the Food Safety Authority has said it is time to put aside irrational and non-science based...
Agri-Business
Growth in global meat production limited by rising cost of inputs
Global production growth for meat is to average 2% a year over the next decade, restrained by the rising cost...
Environment
Government views as important as scientific evidence on GMOs, says Juncker
The new President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker is to review current EU legislation in the area of Genetically...
Beef
US beef production damages the environment according to new study
Beef production in the US is damaging to the environment, a new study has found. The study states that US...
Agri-Business
EU farm organisation calls for stronger action to combat unfair practices in the food chain
Copa-Cogeca has said a much more ambitious and stronger approach than was proposed by the European Commission this week, is needed...
Other
Dunbia ranks among UK's top 100 companies
Increased sales and continued expansion has seen Dungannon based meat processor, Dunbia secure its place in the Sunday Times Top...
Arable
Costs and younger people see potato sales decline
Market research commissioned by potato packer Wilson’s Country has confirmed that the tonnages of fresh potatoes sold on the Irish...
Agri-Business
Who will be the next EU Farm Commissioner?
There now seems every likelihood that the Romanian politician Dacian Cioloş will be asked to serve a second consecutive term...
Agri-Business
Country of origin labelling on council agenda
The EU Council of Agriculture Ministers are set to discuss the laying down rules for the application of mandatory indication...
Agri-Business
EU vote allows countries decide GMO policy
EU Environmental Ministers have voted to allow individual countries decide whether or not to ban or allow the growing of...
Agri-Business
People grocery shop less often, but buy more
The latest supermarket share figures from Kantar Worldpanel in Ireland show the Irish grocery market returning to growth for the...
Agri-Business
Brazil cow tests positive for BSE
The suspected case of BSE in a 12-year-old cow in Brazil has tested positive. According to the World Organisation for...
Agri-Business
Global response to food shock’s poor
The global governance response to shocks to the food system has been inadequate over the years according to Dr. Maximo...
Agri-Business
European Commission orders new EU-wide tests for horse meat
A year on from the horse meat scandal, which shocked the Irish beef industry, the Food Safety Authority (FSAI) has, today,...
Agri-Business
'Food system needs urgent reform'
In an interview with viEUws at the Forum on the Future of Agriculture 2014, Olivier De Schutter – UN Special...
Agri-Business
New rural all-Ireland artisan producer network
A new rural artisan producers network for the island of Ireland was launched this morning. Teagasc, together with the...
Arable
New pesticide management rules for crop growers
From the first of January this year it has become compulsory for all professional users of plant protection products (PPPs)...
