World News
Video: Hundreds of sheep 'lamp-pede' down mountainside
This video of sheep almost cascading down the side of a mountain in New Zealand has proven to be a...
World News
This video of sheep almost cascading down the side of a mountain in New Zealand has proven to be a...
Agri-Business
Food stocks are perceived to be less exposed to economic cycles than other industrial sectors as they are recognised as...
Arable
Egyptian quarantine authorities last week rejected another cargo of wheat for containing traces of ergot, it emerged this week. According...
World News
A four-year-old bull weighing 1,887kg has been found in southwestern China and it is reported to be the biggest in...
EU
The use of existing antimicrobial drugs should be restricted and new ones should be developed, Environment and Public Health Committee...
Agri-Business
John Deere has posted a decline in sales and revenues of 13% to $5.525 billion for the first quarter of...
Dairy
LacPatrick co-op has decided to cut its milk price to 25.25c/L for January supplies of milk, down from the 26.00c/L...
Pig/Poultry
Plans are afoot in Russia to create a pig production cluster which is to have a capacity for 1.2m head...
World News
This 14,000ac model farm is believed to be the largest of its kind in North America, possibly the world. It was...
Agri-Business
EU agri-food exports to non-EU countries last year reached a record value of €129 billion, according to a new European...
Dairy
Ongoing milk production in Europe is to blame for keeping global milk prices depressed, according to Dairy Australia. Dairy Australia,...
Sheep
The 2016 lambing season has well and truly began with farmers across the country and the UK spending many hours...
Pig/Poultry
A leading pig farmer has slammed the €1m pig aid payment allocated to Irish pig farmers as ‘absymal’. It comes as...
Agri-Business
The European Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan has completed his ‘diplomatic offensive’ in Central America to try open up new...
N.Ireland
Farmers and food producers in Northern Ireland must be highly efficient if they are to overcome challenges caused by ongoing global...
Rural Life
A 15-year-old girl in Germany has trained her cow to jump like a horse, after her parents told her she couldn’t...
Other
The EU public intervention scheme is now over one-third full just six weeks into 2016, according to latest figures from...
Rural Life
One farmer in north Co. Dublin is sick of being the victim of rural crime and thinks it’s time for...