Dairy
Somatic cell counts dropping
Teagasc milk quality specialist Dr David Gleeson has told AgriLand that somatic cell count (SCC) levels are continuing to fall...
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ABP supplies beef to research-hunger students
ABP Beef is to supply Dundalk Institute of Technology culinary arts students with beef for use in training to work...
Agri-Business
Probe under way on TLT cattle
The Receiver appointed by HSBC over animal exporter TLT International has provided an update on the progress made to date...
Agri-Business
Agri lending on the up in Northern Ireland
Bank of Ireland UK has confirmed to AgriLand that it has committed in excess of £60m sterling of additional finance...
Agri-Business
Farm business matters
The Teagasc Farm Business Conference 2013 is taking place today in Tullamore. This conference will be of particular interest to solicitors,...
Agri-Business
Liquid gold, multimillion 'milk mining' investment
A functional foods centre is the latest to benefit from €100m joint Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland technology centres programme, which...
Beef
Latest beef and sheep slaughtering figures
The beef kill was up slightly last week on the previous week. Statistics released from the Department of Agriculture this afternoon show that 32,410...
World News
Rising milk production costs continue to squeeze margins, Rabobank
World View: Higher average prices for globally traded dairy commodities have not necessarily brought higher average margins for milk producers,...
Government
Family farm still on the table for student grant means test
AgriLand understand the Minister for Education has not dropped the idea of including the family farm in means test assessments...
Arable
Soil testing shows value
The View from Teagasc: The demise of the sugar beet crop led many farmers to move from crop rotation to cereal monoculture. Soil...
Environment
Agri consultancy sector to be hit hard by loss of REPS
In the region of 13,000 farmers will leave the rural environmental protection scheme (REPS) this year. This will not only...
Dairy
New milk supply contracts for Glanbia in the New Year
Glanbia milk suppliers will be asked to sign new milk supply contracts in the New Year, according to a spokesman...
Agri-Business
ESB strike 'a disaster for farming', talks ongoing
Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, and farming organisation, the ICMSA, have described the threatened industrial action at ESB as “a...
Beef
Beefing up sustainability
At an event in Brussels today the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform has announced the launch of new principles for...
Environment
Dry weather set to continue
Met Eireann forecasts a mostly dry week for the country this week. Rainfall is well below normal in most parts...
Environment
1.9m calves born in 2013 tested for BVD
So far more than 1.9 million calves born in 2013 have been tested for BVD. This is according to Dr...
Agri-Business
Record-breaking land auction
Allsop Space, Ireland’s leading auctioneers, has announced that it will hold a record-breaking auction of 150 properties on 10 December...
Dairy
Scotland has the dairy 'wow' factor
Tinahely Dairy Discussion group recently visited dairy farms in Scotland with hugely contrasting feed philosophies. AgriLand caught up with Paul Keogh, dairy...
