Rural Life
Video: Great footage of the 2015 maize harvest finishing up
The maize harvest on Milltown Farm in Ballylinan, Co. Laois was completed in the last few weeks by agri-contractors, the...
Rural Life
The maize harvest on Milltown Farm in Ballylinan, Co. Laois was completed in the last few weeks by agri-contractors, the...
N.Ireland
A man has died in a farm accident in Northern Ireland after the tractor he was working with overturned. It...
Pig/Poultry
Over 13,000 birds have been culled in Bayern, Germany following a case of bird flu in the country, according to...
Dairy
Fonterra has maintained its forecast farmgate milk price of $4.60/kgMS (milk solids). In November, the co-op increased estimated earnings per share...
EU
EU action is needed to set legal limits on trans fats, a new report by the European Commission has concluded....
Agri-Business
Annette Flynn has been appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Board Director of Dairygold Co-op. Flynn is currently a Non-Executive Director of...
EU
The European Commission has adopted two Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for food or feed uses, despite MEPs from the European...
Beef
The announcement last week that the Larry Goodman owned ABP Group is set to take a 50% stake in Slaney...
Beef
Little change is being reported in the cattle trade this week as supplies are reported to be holding strong. Bord...
Dairy
With the Irish dairy sector in expansion mode, efficient heifer rearing has become vitally important on many farmers around the...
N.Ireland
There is no appetite to transform the Winter Fair from a one day to a two-day event, according to Royal...
World News
The Food and Agricultural Organisation’s (FAO) Food Price Index was down 1.6% in November on October, with dairy and meat...
Beef
Farmers should not automatically assume that coughing cattle, including cows, have a lungworm problem, according Co. Meath veterinarian Frank O’Sullivan. “In some...
Pig/Poultry
The threat of avian influenza (AI) remains a real ‘wild card’ which has the potential to impact supply, trade and...
Dairy
A group of dairy farmers from the South-East of Ireland will supply 70m litres of fresh milk to Strathroy Dairy...
Beef
It would be foolhardy in the extreme to curb the production of beef in a country where we produce in...
EU
A new trade deal has been agreed between the EU and Vietnam. The agreement will give the EU access to...
World News
Fonterra Australia will invest NZ$141m (€89m) in building a state-of-the-art cheese plant at its Stanhope factory. The new facility will...