Machinery
Holden Agri & Fuels appointed new DeLaval dealer for the northwest
DeLaval has appointed Holden Agriculture & Fuels a family-owned agri-business as its new dealer for counties Donegal, Derry and Tyrone....
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Agri-Business
Live exports increased by 11% to €240m in 2013
Stronger cattle and sheep exports helped boost the value of livestock exports in 2013. For the year the value of...
Agri-Business
Agri-food exports key for economic recovery, EU commissioner
Agri-food exports, notably quality products rather then commodities, are vital for helping Europe emerge from economic crisis, as we are...
Environment
Ireland's bees come out tops for pollinating crops
Research at the University of Reading in the UK has found that Europe has 13.4 million too few honeybee colonies...
Agri-Business
Price a key driver in export boom of dairy and beef
A 15 per cent increase in the value of dairy exports, which has exceeded €3bn for the first time ever,...
Dairy
Demand places upward pressure on European dairy prices
According to DairyCo, milk production in the European Union is still performing well with cumulative deliveries (Apr-Oct) just over one...
Agri-Business
Aspirations for rural development in 2014
Teresa Canavan took over as CEO of the Rural Development Council (RDC) in Northern Ireland last September. As she looks...
Agri-Business
25,000 farming jobs created last year as agri-food exports jump 40% in four years
More than 58,000 jobs were created last year in Ireland and 25,000 of these were in farming. This is according...
Dairy
Grass quality and quantity key
The relationship between quantity and quality of grass on Irish farms and farm profit cannot be under-estimated. This is according...
Agri-Business
Strathroy management meets with Wexford producers
Strathroy Dairy has issued a seven-point guarantee to Wexford Milk Producers (WMP), as the Co Tyrone-based milk processor strives to...
Machinery
Valtra expect big yields from updated S series
Amid the hype and hysteria of Agritechnica last year, Valtra’s new S Series tractor took pride of place in its...
Sheep
Lamb kill finishes 2013 up 6%
According to statistics released by the Department of Agriculture the lamb kill in Ireland was up six per cent or...
Agri-Business
Agriculture fatalities fall during 2013
Official figures by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) show there were 46 people killed in work-related accidents during 2013,...
Arable
Yield potential of winter cereals remains high – despite the wet weather
Teagasc’s head of agronomy John Spink has told AgriLand that only cereal crops that have been in standing water for...
Agri-Business
Decision on co-funding rural development imminent
A decision on the proposed co-funding of the next Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 (RDP) is imminent. Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney...
Arable
Winter cereals
The View from Northern Ireland: Following a good autumn most winter cereal crops are well established with the exception of late...
Agri-Business
China’s one-child policy shift, implications for the infant formula market
Starting in early 2014, China will relax the current one-child policy. China’s family planning laws, first introduced in the 1970s,...
Machinery
New Joskin bale trailer
The Belgian machinery manufactures Joskin brought a new bale trailer to Agritechnica this year. Transporting bales plays an ever more...
