N.Ireland
Merlo Ireland to get serious about telescopic handlers
The telehandler business in Ireland is already significant and is set to grow further according to Shaun Groom, general manager...
Italy
Agri-Business
Illegal trade of fake pesticides and fertilisers scuppered in Europe
An illegal trading scheme in banned and fake pesticides and fertilisers that were potentially dangerous to consumers’ health has been...
Rural Life
Hundreds of farmers to attend WFO annual meeting
The 2024 World Farmers’ Organistion (WFO) annual meeting will take place from June 17 to June 21 at the Food...
Agri-Business
€470k in assets seized in EU agri funding fraud case
Assets worth €470,000 have been seized in Italy as part of an EU agricultural funding fraud case. At the request...
Machinery
Video: Nardi eyes Ploughing 2024 for Irish machinery launch
In Ireland we are favoured with a large number of companies offering tillage equipment covering all systems and situations. Yet,...
Agri-Business
Italy bans lab-grown meat due to social and economic risks
Italy has become the first nation to ban lab-grown meat, in what the Italian Minister for Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida described...
Agri-Business
Kverneland shines the spotlight on ROC mergers
A visitor to the one of the larger European agricultural machinery fairs will soon come to appreciate that Italy is...
Machinery
New Holland supports energy independence with Italian partnership
The idea of farms being independent of the established energy distribution infrastructure is hardly new. It was only with the...
Agri-Business
48 arrested in Italy after mafia-linked group defrauds EU agri-funds
Authorities in Italy, assisted by the EU’s anti-fraud office, have arrested 48 people in connection with a scheme to defraud...
Machinery
Argo resumes production as Italy eases Covid-19 lockdown
Argo Tractors – the firm behind the Landini, McCormick and Valpadana brands – has resumed production this week with stringent...
Rural Life
Man says Italian football club ‘still owes’ him 2 tractors
The father of a Juventus and Italy football player has claimed that the Italian football club “still owes” him two...
World News
Hundreds of livestock injured, dead and missing following Italian quakes
Hundreds of livestock have been injured, killed or are still missing following a series of earthquakes in the central region of...
World News
Parents in Italy could be jailed for enforcing vegan diets on children
Parents in Italy who subject their child to a vegan diet could face anywhere between one to six years imprisonment...
