Agri-Business
More and more UK consumers shun beef for chicken and lamb
Beef sales in the 12-week period to April 26 were down on the year in both value and volume terms, according...
Agri-Business
Beef sales in the 12-week period to April 26 were down on the year in both value and volume terms, according...
Arable
Winter wheat crops are approaching their flag leaf spray, David Leahy Agronomist with Glanbia says. This year programmes have been...
Pig/Poultry
Some 73% of chickens in the UK have tested positive for the presence of campylobacter, the Food Standards Agency (FSA)...
Environment
Members of the European Agriculture Committee have asked to scrap the European Commission’s plans to set new binding reduction targets...
Rural Life
RTE is now searching the country to find the fittest, fastest, strongest families to enter one of Ireland’s most extreme...
Arable
The weather conditions in Ireland continue to be favourable for crop development and in general crop growth conditions throughout Europe...
Grass
Silage contracting rates will in the range €110/ac to €140/ac for 2015, according to Co. Meath contractor Peter Farrelly. “These...
Machinery
Joskin has launched a limited edition miniature of the first tanker the company ever produced. The company says that 1984...
Beef
Last week the beef heifer price differential between Northern Ireland and the Republic narrowed to 35.5c/kg, the latest Livestock and...
Dairy
Dairy is China’s largest imported food item and has an estimated value of $9.54 billion, according to a report by...
Grass
Many dairy and livestock farmers have missed the boat in terms of maximising first cut grass silage quality this year,...
Rural Life
Cuts to the Rural Development Programme will be a blow to rural Ireland, according to Independent MEP Marian Harkin. Speaking following...
Dairy
Domestic milk intake by creameries and pasteurisers was estimated at 775.5m litres for April 2015, according to the CSO. It...
EU
Agreement on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for import as food and feed hasn’t been reached in the European Union since 2003....
Machinery
The Department of Environment in Northern Ireland has opened a six-week public consultation on the feasibility of increasing the weight...
Agri-Business
Aldi’s brand is now worth more than Tesco’s, according to the Millward Brown and WPP’s Brandz Most Valuable Global Brands report....
Dairy
Aurivo is to introduce a three-year, fixed-price contract option to its dairy shareholders, according to the co-op’s dairy processing General...
Grass
AB Vista has launched a new mobile device for testing silage quality which, it says, is not just new to the...