Agri-Business
New weed and insect protection options from Dow Agrosciences
Two new crop protection active ingredients for weed and insect control have been developed by Dow Agrosciences. The new ingredients,...
Agri-Business
Two new crop protection active ingredients for weed and insect control have been developed by Dow Agrosciences. The new ingredients,...
Agri-Business
As the global demand for meat, fish and dairy grows, the demand for animal feed also grows, according to Rabobank....
Rural Life
The change in the weather in the past week across the country might have had an impact on these sheep...
Sheep
One of the main causes of lameness in sheep is contagious ovine digital dermatitis (CODD), which is spread by sheep-to-sheep...
Beef
Dairy and beef farmers should be on the lookout for quite an intense period of lungworm infection (hoose) once the current...
Arable
Sterile Brome grass has the potential to have a detrimental effect on the growing of winter barley in Ireland, according...
EU
Luxembourg takes over the Presidency of the EU this month and will chair its first meeting of the Agriculture Council...
Dairy
New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra has opened its new plant in the Netherlands which will process 1 billion litres of...
Rural Life
A BBC Northern Ireland reporter recently had a ‘wee moment’ with a lamb when it heeded the call of nature....
Dairy
The process of expansion is a stressful time for new entrant dairy farmers, said Patrick Gowing of the Teagasc Dairy...
Rural Life
Pat Shortt and John Kenny’s exploits in their collection of D’Unbelievables movies are much loved in the farming community. Agriland...
Dairy
Increasing the current intervention price for dairy products would be counter-productive the EU Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan has said....
Beef
There will be almost 1m dairy-bred calves available for beef production by 2020, according to Paul Crosson of Teagasc. Speaking at...
Pig/Poultry
In 2014, UK consumers bought more poultry than any other meat product, a report by the British Poultry Council has...
Arable
The latest planting and variety survey, from AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds, suggests a decline in the total cereal and oilseed...
Beef
The non-stunning of animals pre-slaughter, for Halal purposes, is a contentious issue, according to Wicklow vet Pete Wedderburn. Speaking on the Pat...
Arable
Tillage farmers’ margins increase with hybrids was the take home message from Seedtech’s Commercial Director Aidan Moore at this year’s...
Beef
Teagasc research has found that just a €20/t increase in feed costs can hit net margins in young bull production...