Rural Life
Farmers are least likely people to talk about stress or depression
Irish farmers rarely discuss personal problems like stress or depression, a new major study has found. The research was carried out...
Farmers
Dairy
EU proposals to help farmers include 70% advance on direct payments
The measures announced by the European Commission to help farmers include the facility for Member States to advance up to...
EU
Farmers invade Brussels ahead of Extraordinary Agriculture Council meeting
Thousands of farmers have descended on Brussels today ahead of an ‘Extraordinary’ meeting of EU Agriculture Ministers this afternoon. Following...
N.Ireland
O’Neill calls on EU to support North’s farmers
The EU needs to act swiftly to support farmers in Northern Ireland, according to the North’s Agricultural Minister Michelle O’Neill....
N.Ireland
O'Neill calls on EU to support North's farmers
The EU needs to act swiftly to support farmers in Northern Ireland, according to the North’s Agricultural Minister Michelle O’Neill....
N.Ireland
Northern farmers plan major protest outside EU Belfast offices
The Farmers For Action (FFA) group in Northern Ireland is holding a major protest outside the EU Offices on the Dublin Road...
N.Ireland
Northern farmers plan major protest outside EU Belfast offices
The Farmers For Action (FFA) group in Northern Ireland is holding a major protest outside the EU Offices on the Dublin Road...
EU
French farmers block trucks with foreign food from entering France
Over 1,000 farmers in France today (July 27) set up roadblocks blocking food imports from Germany and Spain. This is the latest...
World News
UK farmers following the French; stage tractor protest
UK farmers staged a rolling tractor road block last week on the A50 in Staffordshire, UK, in protest about falling...
Rural Life
Poll shows most farmers pull in to let traffic pass out (only 12% don't bother)
The summer months are particularly busy on Irish farms and there is a noticeable increase in the number of tractors...
Rural Life
Do farmers have to pull over to let traffic pass?
Traffic tailbacks behind tractors during the summer months can be common place across the country. The issue can be one...
EU
The EU spends €4 billion policing farmers every year
Some €4 billion of EU money is spent every year policing farmers to ensure they obey a litany of complex EU...
Rural Life
10 things your non farming friends just don't understand
There are certain things that only Irish farmers would understand and we’ve compiled a list of some of our favourites!...
EU
New figures show farmers' share of consumer prices declining
Figures provided to Mairead McGuinness, Member of European Parliament (MEP), show that the share farmers receive of the final price...
Agri-Business
Farmers urged to adapt to consumer needs
UK farmers face disruptive times and more demanding customers, Joanne Denney-Finch said at the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) Conference. Denney-Finch...
Machinery
VIDEO: Every farmer needs one of these new JCB machines!
There can’t be a farmer in the country who could not find a use for one of the all-new JCB...
Dairy
Effect of once daily milking (OAD) on farmers' profit
With the country well over quota at present (+6%) many dairy farmers are considering once daily milking (OAD) as an...
Dairy
Kiwi farmers want rain as Indian summer continues
Soils are drying out fast around New Zealand according to dairy industry body DairyNZ. The majority of New Zealand’s North Island...
