Agri-Business
Growth in grocery agri-food spend
A survey carried out for Checkout magazine by Empathy Research has found that 29 per cent of consumers feel the...
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Agri-Business
Agri income per worker up marginally in 2013
Agricultural income per worker was up marginally in 2013, recovering some of the ground lost in 2012 where incomes were...
Agri-Business
Bryan condemns retailer behaviour
IFA President John Bryan has lashed out at retailer bosses, including the discounters, for making a mockery of the hard...
Dairy
Good management key to dairying on wet land
A large proportion, approximately 30 per cent of milk produced in Ireland originates from farms where the soils can be...
Agri-Business
Good week, bad week for farming
COMMENT: The tremendous news generated by the dairy sector over recent days has been tempered by the more than challenging...
Dairy
Result of penultimate milk trading and current quota position out
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, announced the aggregate results of the 15th Milk Quota Trading...
Beef
Slaney outlines new disease monitoring system
At its beef seminar in Tullow, Co Carlow last night, Wexford-based Slaney Foods outlined to farmers and vets developments in its new disease monitoring scheme....
Dairy
'Dairy farmers must move their focus beyond that of milk price’
Milk production levels on many farms may be at an all time high and the market is returning better prices,...
Beef
Concerns over retention of BVD positive calves
Speaking last night at Slaney Foods’ animal health beef seminar, Frank O’Sullivan of Veterinary Ireland stressed the importance of removing PI...
Agri-Business
Results are out for Royal Ulster Winter Fair 2013
Royal Ulster Winter Fair 2013 RESULTS Inter Breed Champion: The Patterson family Inter Breed Reserve: The McLean family Inter Breed...
Dairy
Communication key to sustainable dairy assurance scheme
The Irish dairy sector across the board has welcomed Bord Bia‘s Sustainable Dairy Assurance Scheme (SDAS), which was launched this...
Beef
124% increase in cattle reported stolen this year
The amount of cattle reported stolen to gardai in 2013 has increased by a massive 124 per cent on 2012 figures....
Agri-Business
Calls for a national food bank
Calls have be made for a national food bank following reports some 50,000 tonnes of good food is thrown away...
Rural Life
And may all your Christmases be green and yellow
If you’re already dreaming of a white Christmas, why not inject a bit of colour with John Deere’s latest seasonal...
Dairy
Winter Fair set to become two-day event
On the back of the continuing success that is the Royal Ulster Winter Fair, the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society (RUAS)...
Beef
Latest beef and sheep slaughtering figures
The beef killwas down slightly last week on the previous week. Statistics released from the Department of Agriculture this afternoon...
Environment
Use of biomass by Aurivo to lead to halving of carbon emissions
A new wood-fuelled energy system being installed at the Aurivo dairy ingredients plant at Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon aims to cut...
Sheep
Sheep farm incomes set to recover in 2014
The outlook for Irish and EU lamb prices for 2014 is more optimistic. Teagasc forecast that sheep farm incomes will...
