Environment
190 vets complete Johne's training as more funding sought
The roll out of the voluntary Johne’s disease control programme for dairy herds across Ireland is now well under way....
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Beef
Snapshot of the mart trade
Marts are only now starting to get back into action throughout the country. With much controversy surrounding the young bull...
Agri-Business
Forestry proving a very attractive long-term farm investment
Some 20,000 farmers are involved in forestry enterprises and this means more than half of Ireland’s forests are now privately owned...
Beef
Young bull issue must be addressed by meat plants
COMMENT: Yet again beef producers have been left holding the can with animals they were encouraged to produce for two years...
Agri-Business
Steady uptake of WMP milk contracts with Glanbia
More than 50 per cent of Wexford Milk Producers (WMP) have signed milk contracts with Glanbia Ingredients Ireland Limited (GIIL)...
Beef
McAdam to push ahead with legal action against ABP
Martin McAdam, of Co Monaghan-based McAdam Foods, has told AgriLand that he is meeting barristers in Dublin today in order...
Arable
New insights into maximising crop yields
Plants naturally slow their growth or even stop growing altogether in response to adverse conditions, such as water shortage or...
Machinery
CLAAS celebrate 10 years in the tractor business
Claas is celebrating 10 years in the tractor business in 2014, recognising the sale of the first Claas tractor in...
Agri-Business
EU Farm Commissioner looks ahead
Courtesy of his speech to the Green Week event in Berlin, EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos took the opportunity of looking...
Machinery
AGCO to showcase its full line up
Discover AGCO is a brand-new event in the farming calendar, showcasing its full line-up of farm machinery brands, latest technology...
Dairy
Dairy Ireland welcomes CAP, RDP plans
Dairy Ireland has welcomed the recent Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Rural Development Programme (RDP) announcement, however it notes how it...
Dairy
Calving facilities for an expanding herd
With countless dairy farmers throughout the country planning on expanding their herds in the coming years, this expansion will put...
Agri-Business
Agri-food sector awareness of nanotechnology low, study
The awareness of the uses of nanotechnology in the agri-food sector was found to be low in a recent study...
Environment
High hopes for a GLAS top-up organic farming payment
Ireland’s new Green Low-Carbon Agri-environment Scheme (GLAS) payment must include organic farming as a core element and, in particular, organic...
Agri-Business
'Budget vital to combat milk, feed and fertiliser risks'
The expansion process at farm level will put a significant strain on scarce cash resources, cautioned Laurence Shalloo, of Teagasc...
World News
MEPs call for production chain measures to combat food fraud
The View from Europe: MEPs this week called for a review of food production chains, step up checks and revise...
Agri-Business
Cork man dies on farm
Gardai and the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) are investigating the death of a 26-year-old man who died in a...
Agri-Business
World food prices in 2013 third highest on record
For the year just gone by the 2013 the World food Price Index averaged 209.9 points, the third highest annual value on...
