Friday 19 October 2018
The far-right front-runner in Brazil’s presidential race plans to put foreign policy in the hands of a diplomat who has praised the nationalist agenda of U.S. President Donald Trump that has shaken the global order, an adviser to the candidate said.
We have made great progress on our construction project during the prolonged dry spell.
Midlands communities face a major blow as Bord na Móna is set to announce hundreds of job losses later this month.
An increase of 10c/l for winter milk over last year is being sought by the IFA, as talks start with dairies on the 2018-19 price.
A farmer who was allegedly murdered by his neighbour with a teleporter had previously appeared in court on shotgun charges.
The job of Bord Bia CEO Tara McCarthy is to champion Ireland's food industry.
Difficulties faced by British farmers on foot of Brexit present an opportunity for Irish producers that can mitigate the impact of the UK's departure from the EU, according to Bord Bia chief executive Tara McCarthy.
The evidence has finished in the trial of a 63-year-old north Kerry dairy farmer for the murder of a neighbouring tillage farmer.
The so-called Brexit 'backstop' is a huge protection for Irish farmers, according to the Tanaiste Simon Coveney.
The degree of bitterness in a long-running legal battle between high profile shareholders of the Galway Clinic has been laid bare at a hearing at the High Court.
Last week the factories appeared to have plugged the holes in their price quotes that kept putting downward pressure on prices.
The Dairygold Board has today decided to maintain the base price paid for milk supplied in September at 32cpl inclusive of 0.5cpl quality bonus and VAT, based on standard constituents of 3.3pc Protein and 3.6pc Butterfat.
As a suckler beef farmer, I wish to respond to some of the points made by Darragh McCullough and Pat McCormack in articles published recently (October 2) in the Farming Independent.
Silage quality is not fantastic this year, according to independent nutritionist, Brian Reidy, who said he has been testing client’s silage from pits that are currently open and the results are not great.
Major Irish meat processor, is set to unveil its latest product innovation - the first Omega 3 enriched beef - this week at the influential Global Food Marketplace trade fair, SIAL, in France.
Confusion over where Gardai boundaries in rural areas has led to a number of incidences where criminals have been able to flee crime scenes unchallenged, the IFA Deputy President has said.
The Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) has defended its failure to spot abuse of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) sooner.
Global dairy prices fell for the fifth time in a row at an auction early on Wednesday as supply remained robust from largest seller New Zealand and other areas of the world.
Rats are on the move out of fields earlier this year, and farmers have been urged to take action to prevent them compromising feed stores and infesting farm buildings.
A massive increase in the area of winter barley planted has been reported by seed companies and merchants.
Agricultural contractors expect to be making silage into the first week of November as farmers scramble to increase winter fodder supplies.
The Netherlands largest and oldest supermarket chain Albert Heijn has said that it will continue to stock Irish beef despite controversial claims of poor animal welfare standards on Irish farms.
A 63-year-old north Kerry farmer drove the forks of his teleporter in through the window and down on top of the car of a neighbouring landowner because there was no other way to stop his neighbour using a loud crow banger, he told gardai on the day of his arrest, on April 4, 2017 on suspicion of murder.
Christor O’Crualaoi of Ballyburden, Ballincollig woke up this morning to find 110 bales slashed, causing hundreds of euros worth of damage.
A drastic reduction of antibiotic usage in farming is required in the battle against lethal superbugs in humans, the country's vets have been warned.
Climate change will cause "dramatic" price spikes in beer with Ireland particularly affected, new research has found.
Storm Powell travelled to Kilkenny Mart to get farmers' views on Budget 2019 and the latest climate change warnings.
Ireland ranks second in the world in a new global food security index after being overtaken by Singapore.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published the latest National Priority Sites List for Enforcement and named five agri-food companies for failing to meet necessary environmental standards.
In recent weeks, farmers have been gathering the last of the winter fodder and are now looking to make the most of what they have. Alltech Nutritionist, Cathal Bohane highlighted several key areas on buffer feeding at the recent Farmex event.
The auction rooms continue to be busy, with farms of all sizes selling before, during and after auction.
Irish beef is in the headlines in the Netherlands for all the wrong reasons after animal rights activists alleged welfare abuses on farms here.
Pre-emergence and early post-emergence herbicide applications in wheat and barley will give the best weed control this autumn.
A curious case of Polish heifer fraud caught the eye of EU auditors poring over the bloc's 2017 accounts.
More than €800m is due to flow into farmers' accounts today as the initial 70pc instalment of the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) is paid out to 124,000 applicants.
After a difficult year for growing grass and the subsequent fodder deficit on a lot of farms, especially in the southern and eastern counties, it is now time to start thinking about next spring's grass.
As Greencore's shares sank yesterday, it appears that at least some shareholders aren't convinced by the decision to sell its US business.
Greencore CEO Patrick Coveney says he has no intention of quitting the food group after it announced the sale of its entire US operation for $1.07bn (€923m).
An East Kerry farmer has spoken of his joy at seeing first-hand how his very last dairy cow, which he gifted to a family in Rwanda, has transformed lives.
A farmer in Co Meath is appealing for information, after his John Deere tractor was stolen from his farm last week.
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed has warned that farmers cannot be asked to do more on the environment while getting less support from the European Union.
A trip around the stalls and stands at the recent ploughing extravaganza left one in no doubt that the future will be robotic. From the invention of the hoe 11,000 years ago in the fertile plain between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates in southern Iraq, farming has been characterised by ever increasing mechanisation.
The Government recently announced details of its planned new low cost loan scheme for farmers and SMEs.
Almost 200 farmers in Kerry have received notification that part of their lands are to be acquired for a greenway through Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO).
Legislation that will bring ease the burden of nursing home fees on farm families is due before the Dail within weeks.
Kerry Group has announced its base milk price for September, keeping it unchanged from its August price.
ICSA has brought its campaign over beef price cuts to the West with a protest this morning outside Dawn Meats in Ballyhaunis.
The EU is entering 'crunch time' in relation to the EU budget and the future CAP proposal, the EU Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan has said.
A Co. Limerick farmer had 16 bales of silage slashed to pieces in what he describes as a “despicable crime”.
The cream of Irish herds will go head to head at the 2018 National Dairy Show in the Green Glens Arena, Millstreet.
After enduring extreme weather conditions and the risk of a hard Brexit increasing, the agri-sector will be anxious Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe will not introduce any measures in today's Budget that will add to the difficulties already being faced by them.
France will start putting up fencing along part of its border with Belgium this weekend to prevent wild boars spreading African swine fever, a virulent livestock disease that could disrupt Europe’s large pig industry.
Upgrades to ports, an electricity line to the continent, and loans for farmers and businesses are among hundreds of millions of euro in planned financing by the European Investment Bank (EIB) to help combat the threat of Brexit.
A stolen Toyota Land Cruiser and parts of many similar vehicles have been recovered in a joint operation involving the Garda and the PSNI along the Border.
Irish beef is in the headlines in the Netherlands for all the wrong reasons after animal rights activists alleged welfare abuses on farms here.
After a long summer battle to build fodder reserves, most farms are now within a few weeks of starting to house animals on full winter diets. Excellent grass growing conditions through August and September have helped to partially bridge the fodder gap in most areas but there remains a significant shortfall in winter feed across many counties.
I left the IFA county executive meeting in Portlaoise last week with the strong feeling that there was no-one at the highest level in politics batting for the beef sector.
Patrick Boyle fell in love with the Swaledale breed of sheep when he was driving in Yorkshire and had to pull over to allow a flock of the bushy-tailed ones to cross the road.
A substantial 151ac residential farm at Harristown near Kinnegad in Co Meath is back on the market with a guide price of €1.75m.
Question: I have been troubled by hunters coming onto my out-farm for some time and I have just had enough. I have sheep on the land and I have always blamed the shooters and their dogs for difficulties with ewes losing lambs. /b>
A nail-biting finish saw Frank Flynn of Robert B Daly auctioneers sell a 31ac farm at Derryconnor, Ballivor, for €290,000.
Just 80pc of the €52 million allocated to the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) has been drawn down over the last two years, with the total underspend amounting to around €10 million in 2016 and 2017.
The Indian summer of the last few weeks has resulted in excellent grass growth rates - and a significant improvement in the psychological well-being of farmers.
In one of the larger farm sales of the year, Wexford auctioneer David Quinn recently sold a 178ac non-residential holding at Kilcashel, Avoca in Co Wicklow. In lots that sold during and after auction, the place reached its guide of between €1m and €1.2m.
The Department of Agriculture recently announced a three-year plan to be implemented in Wicklow to manage the growing population of deer in the Garden county. The move comes after a sharp increase of TB incidences in the county with levels now treble the national average.
Glanbia will pay its Member milk suppliers 32 cent per litre (cpl) including VAT for September manufacturing milk supplies at 3.6pc butterfat and 3.3pc protein.
A farmer has been forced to pay over €10,500 to a farm labourer after multiple findings against him by the Workplace Relations Commission.
There is no better place to spend a fine autumn day than on the lakeshores of Westmeath.
New Holland Agriculture hosted a special event for Irish farmers, contractors and dealers at the The Hub in Cillin Hill in Kilkenny last week.
All the ewes on the farm have been prepared for breeding. They were dipped, fluke-dosed and supplemented with minerals and vitamins. This is one of the options I selected for the Sheep Welfare Scheme.
There will be a significant reduction in the levels of badger culling, the Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed indicated in the Dail this week.
If the merger of Lakeland Dairies and LacPatrick goes ahead, then the new co-op will have to be the top payer for milk from the country's leading dairy processors, insisted ICMSA deputy president, Lorcan McCabe.
Brazilian farmers are expected to harvest up to 238.54 million tonnes of grain in the 2018/19 season, the government said on Thursday, with the South American country potentially breaking its production record thanks to expected corn and soy bumper crops.
A manufacturer of agricultural machinery in the north west has announced an investment of £4m and 34 new jobs as it aims for fresh markets including the US.
Balanced global milk supplies and relatively stable prices are forecast for the back end of 2018 and across most of 2019, according to the latest Rabobank quarterly review.
Rural development projects are being choked by bureaucracy, Leader company officers have claimed.
The most popular machines in the Case IH Farmlift line of telescopic loaders have gained a number of new features for 2019, the company has announced.
A 73-year-old Kerry tillage farmer died from “polytrauma” with "total evulsion of the heart and liver" due to multiple penetrating wounds, State Pathologist Margot Bolster told a jury of seven men and five women in the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee where a neighbouring farmer is being tried for his murder.
We are farming in a very divisive environment with some beef farmers blaming others for the poor state of their finances.
Gardai who arrived at a quiet country road the morning of the alleged murder of 73-year-old tillage farmer Anthony O’Mahony have described coming across "an alarming" scene on the quiet country road to the historic Rattoo Tower and of finding a car and the driver with his seat belt on with “catastrophic, horrific injuries – and no-one about.
The Bella Vita luxury condominium tower rises 20 stories over the boomtown of Luís Eduardo Magalhães in northeastern Brazil.
Lakeland Dairies has held its base milk price at 32.78 cents per litre including VAT for September milk supplies.
On a routine morning check this week, Kilkenny farmer Oliver Power walked onto his farm to find 11 of his 40 weanlings dead in a field.
The sale of larger farms continues to be a stand-out feature of this year’s farm sales.
The length of time that people tend to hold on to land is quite constant, at 25-30 years, irrespective of the age that they inherit. Someone who inherits young tends to pass it on at a young age, and a person who is older when they inherit tends to be older when they pass it on.
A hive of bees should be viewed as a single livestock unit for the purposes of CAP, the INHFA has proposed.
Existing checks on agricultural goods travelling between Great Britain and Northern Ireland would have to increase ten-fold after Brexit, the EU's chief negotiator has said - an ultimatum likely to enrage unionists and eurosceptics.
Irish food and nutrition group Glanbia has agreed to buy SlimFast for $350m (€303m).
Buffalo farmer, Liam Byrne will be taking over the FarmIreland Instagram account today and will be telling us and our followers why he made the move to become one of Ireland’s three buffalo farms.
Ireland has just 560,000ha under forestry, or 11pc of land area, a figure far below the EU average and our national target, a recent panel discussion on the topic heard.
A crow banger used by deceased tillage farmer Anthony O’ Mahony would go off every four minutes and 26 seconds at key tillage periods to frighten off crows and pigeons, and was so loud some neighbours wore ear protectors, the trial of a 63-year-old dairy farmer for the murder of a 73-year-old tillage farmer, has been told.
Met Eireann has urged people to "be vigilant" of weather warnings as the country braces itself for the arrival of Storm Callum.
A dairy farmer "intentionally rammed" the car of a neighbouring farmer with the prongs of a teleporter, causing him "catastrophic injuries" resulting in death, a jury has heard.
Rural crime victims fear cuts to garda overtime will lead to an increase in robberies and attacks, despite the Government announcing the recruitment of 800 gardaí in Budget 2019.
The IFA had spent the weeks leading up to last Wednesdays' Beef Forum meeting criticising the factories on prices.
Austria will fight for farm spending post-2020, despite pushing for an overall EU budget cut.
As a suckler farmer I commend Darragh McCullough's article (October 2) headlined "Myths about suckler farming" in the sense that it opens a national conversation about the sector that needs to take place. It has to be said that the view articulated in the article that the suckler sector should not be financially supported demonstrates a degree of courage on Mr McCullough's behalf.
A hunter who shot dead a 10-year-old girl's "beautiful" pet Shetland pony - claiming he had mistaken it for a fox - has been ordered to do 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £500 compensation to the owners.
Problems relating to the re-digitising of land parcels submitted under the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) in 2017 are resulting in farmers losing entitlements to the national reserve.
Fonterra Group Ltd said on Wednesday it lowered its 2018-2019 guidance for its Farmgate Milk price due to a glut in global milk supply.
I referred to the sheep trade as being like Noah's Ark last week, but an ark that had sprung a leak as regards prices. I am happy to report that factories seemed to have plugged, at least temporarily, those leaks. However, the boat is now riding very low in the water from the farmer's point of view.
Met Éireann has this morning issued a Status Orange wind warning for 13 counties.
What is the main job of a politician? To look after those in need? No. World peace? No, that's in beauty pageants. In the real world, a politician's priority - except for one-term positions - is to ensure their re-election.
A north Kerry farmer has pleaded not guilty to the murder of another farmer at the Central Criminal Court, sitting in Tralee, in a trial that is expected to last two weeks.
The Government has been accused of failing to understand the challenges facing the farming sector, despite a significant increase in funding for the Department of Agriculture and new supports for suckler farmers.
'More money for farmers" was shouted in the Dáil chamber as Paschal Donohoe announced some of his measures for the agri sector. But yesterday's Budget was far from a hand-out to farmers. Much of the increased spend is a helping hand to the broader agri sector and will have left many farmers wondering if there is anything new in it for them.
Young farmer Trevor Boland (38), from Co Sligo, welcomed the Budget but said a €20m scheme to support suckler farmers did not go far enough.
Donegal farmer Stuart Wilson had strong words for Government on the back of the Budget.
Despite announcing a significant increase in funding for the Department of Agriculture and new supports for suckler farmers in its 2019 Budget the Government has been accused of failing to understand the challenges facing farmers.
The vital live export trade for calves to the continent could be severely disrupted this spring because of "unworkable" regulations on travel times, it was claimed by one of the country's largest live shippers yesterday.
The Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has just announced some important measures for agriculture in 2019. The FarmIreland Team have put together a list of the key announcements.
European Union countries are on the verge of agreeing to start negotiations with the United States to allow more U.S. beef into Europe, in what could be a major move to defuse transatlantic trade tensions.
Irish food exporters are preparing to stockpile product in Britain in order to limit the damage from a hard Brexit.
The EU cannot afford to cut the funding of its farm policy if it is to continue ensuring delivery of public goods to EU citizens, the Agriculture Committee said on Tuesday.
Farming in Scotland was hit by poor weather over the last year, resulting in falls in sheep and cattle numbers.
Farmers can expect a new suckler payment and a restoration of the Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) payments to €250m from the Budget today.
China banned imports of pigs, wild boars and products from Belgium after an outbreak of African swine fever, as well as imports from Japan after a regular swine fever outbreak, the General Administration of Customs said on Tuesday.
Vulture funds have significantly ramped up action against debtors in recent weeks, new data reveals.
The culling of cows to offset the impact of the summer drought has seen cattle intakes at beef plants hit a 15-year high for the month of September.
Currently milking 180 cows, the Gurteen pedigree Holstein Friesian herd has plans to increase herd size to 240 cows, using all home-bred replacement heifers.
Families are to benefit from 100,000 extra GP-only medical cards, increased childcare subsidies and an income tax cut in today’s Budget.
A farmer has been jailed for a third time for being in contempt of a High Court order to remove livestock from his lands which are up for sale.
A new series of Solomix diet feeders is being introduced at EuroTier by Dutch manufacturer Trioliet aimed at large dairy herds of over 180 cows.
Gardai in Tipperary recently discovered this tractor and trailer with zero lighting to the rear, driving on a poorly lit road.
There was a very quiet trade for pedigree rams at the end-of-season multi-breed sale at Central Auctions Mart at Roscrea over the weekend.
The extremely dry weather during the summer has tested farmers in many ways, including bringing new animal health problems to the farm.
The Minister for Agriculture has said that farmers' health of 'primary' importance as fungicide faces being banned by EU over carcinogenic fears.
A County Antrim farmer and businessman has issued a warning for others to be extra vigilant after his Danske Bank account was emptied by online criminals.
Police have appealed for information after fourteen cattle were stolen from a Co Tyrone farm.
Some 70 badgers have been culled in an area in south Kerry which suffered the worst bovine TB outbreak in living memory, the Department of Agriculture has said.
FIVE dead calves and two cows were found by Department of Agriculture veterinary inspectors on a County Limerick farm, Kilmallock Court heard.
Everything this year, even the Ploughing, has worked out much harder than it should be.
This year's unusual weather patterns have increased financial burdens on farmers, and with input costs rising, the months ahead will be challenging.
A North Kerry farmer charged with the murder of a neighbour using a teleporter agri-machine will go on trial in Tralee this week.
With Fairfax after taking its money off the table what does the future now hold for FBD, the last remaining Irish-owned insurer? Last Monday FBD announced that it had agreed to repurchase the €70m of convertible notes which it sold to Canadian investment firm Fairfax in 2015. It has been a sweet deal for Fairfax.
With silage making only recently completed on many farms it feels a bit weird to be discussing silage quality as we plan our winter feeding programmes at Lyons.
It wasn't only the Ploughing Championships that took a battering from Storm Ali recently.
A question mark hangs over the long-signalled hike to diesel and petrol prices as Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe prepares to sign-off on Budget 2019.
They say that it is an ill wind that does not blow somebody some good. Well, the past 12 months have certainly had their share of ill winds but maybe, just maybe, those ill winds have blown some good that might extend long into the future.
Farm sales in Waterford are rare enough, the Déise like to hold fast to what they have.
It was record imports of Irish butter this summer into the US that helped drive the level of butter imports to record levels.
Marcus Stewart often wonders what the Monaghan farming landscape will look like in 10 to 20 years' time, given that most of his old school contemporaries are away from the land and working in cities at home or abroad.
Labour, or the shortage of it, is being cited as a growing issue in the agri sector, a new report states.
Monsanto's defence of its Roundup weed killer may take a hit after an academic journal said the company didn't fully disclose its involvement in published research finding the herbicide safe.
This report is the latest update from Michael Duffy's sheep farm in Kerrykeel, 23 miles north of Letterkenny on the Fanad Peninsula in Donegal.
'My business partner Adrienne's late father Paddy used to travel the roads on his bicycle delivering eggs in the 1960s, so our roots go back a long way."
Teagasc is to sell its 12ha (25acre) site at Kinsealy with initial valuations putting the site worth in the region of €12m.
As the dust settles on this year's Ploughing we find ourselves approaching the end of a very challenging year with unfortunately far too many empty spaces remaining in silage pits and barns up and down the country.
My secondary school days were spent in the company of young men from all over the country.
Teagasc has warned that adhering to strict feeding regimes for housed stock will be critical to safeguard the progress made this autumn in reversing the fodder crisis.
The hated USC is to be cut for almost 1.2 million people in Tuesday’s Budget. Workers can expect to get tax breaks worth around €5 a week in what will be the first balanced budget since 2007.
With Ploughing 2018 behind us, the auction rooms are busy but results are mixed.
Doubling the size of his dairy herd was a challenging undertaking for Paddy O'Gorman, but simultaneously targeting higher output per cow was an even more difficult objective.
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association (ICSA) have protested outside ABP in Clones this morning to reflect what they describe as farmer anger at continuous cuts in beef price by meat factories.
Today, October 5, is National Potato Day and people across the country are being encouraged to recognise the nutritional value of the potato and experiment with new and recipes from Bord Bia’s potato recipe website Potato.ie.
Farmers are holding off making serious machinery investments on their farms at the moment, in light of Brexit uncertainty, according to Gary Ryan.
A Canadian expert, who has experience of extreme weather conditions on farms, has been hired to review the operations at the Greenfield farm in Kilkenny after a number of animals died during Storm Emma.
Lambing in New Zealand is a very different proposition to what I am familiar with.
Last week numbers rebounded somewhat, but the overall effect on prices was relatively muted.
The campaign to secure €200 per cow for suckler farmers ahead of this month's Budget is bonkers, and Minister Creed is dead right to be holding firm against it.
The IFA has accused the Department of Agriculture of making the electronic tagging of sheep (EID) "compulsory for farmers and optional for factories".
Farmers need to plant more forestry the President of the Irish Bioenergy Association has said.
Ireland needs to change its cheddar cheese facilities Gerry Boyle told the Public Accounts Committee yesterday.
LOOKING at the Budget 2019 teasers, it's clear that rural Ireland has little political clout and we've got a capital convinced that everything revolves around it.
South Tipperary land continues to make eye-watering prices and last week saw a 110ac residential farm, Bengurrah House, at Cahirabbey Upper near Cahir make €2.86m or €26,000/ac at auction.
Many farm accidents involve farmers over 80 years of age according to Teagasc Director, Gerry Boyle, who said that as more young people get off-farm jobs, much of the management of the farm is being left to their elders.
This summer's drought and feed shortages have halted seven years of growth in the dairy sector and cut projected processor throughput by around 400 million litres - which translates into an estimated €120m on milk producers' returns.
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, today welcomed the agreement which has been reached with Public Authority for Food and Nutrition of Kuwait under which Irish beef, sheepmeat and poultry will be eligible for export to Kuwait
With increased focus on developing renewable energy machinery, Siloking is introducing its new electric-powered silage feeder to the market at the huge EuroTier Show in Germany this November .
EU exports of live bovine animals in the first half of 2018 were 11pc higher than a year before, but are expected to weaken significantly in the second half of the year, according to a new outlook by the European Commission.
Reports from across the country last weekend indicated that factory prices for beef had stabilised.
Dairy processors LacPatrick and Lakeland have agreed terms on a merger.
France's parliament gave final approval on Tuesday to a "field-to-fork" law aimed at raising farmers' income, improving food quality and fighting waste, but opponents say it will push up consumer prices and only benefit retailers.
Some farmers across the country are still feeling the pinch on fodder and while the housing period drawing closer, there is still time to improve the fodder situation if farms are under pressure.
There is not one single issue fundamental to achieving reproduction targets when rearing replacement heifers, according to Senior Researcher at Teagasc, Moorepark, Emer Kennedy.
Jennie Aherne, owner of the Rubyjen Herd, a pedigree simmental herd, will be taking over the FarmIreland Instagram this Thursday, and will be giving our viewers an insight into her family farm at Towerhill, near Cappamore, in east Limerick.
The Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed has signalled that he will not give in to a demand from the IFA for a new €200 payment for suckler cows.
Officials from Teagasc and the Department of Agriculture will be before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) tomorrow to discuss Teagasc’s Financial Statements 2017.
The old saying about 'the tale of two halves' could be used to summarise the current situation regarding markets and income situation on tillage farms.
The Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, urged meat processors to engage positively with their farmer suppliers at today's Beef Forum, as the IFA led a protest outside the meeting.
The NDC and Kerrygold Quality Milk Award has been awarded to Darran and Denise McKenna of Derrygasson, Co Monaghan, which has been running since 1996 and celebrates excellence in Irish dairy farming.
If the sheep trade was Noah's Ark, those who might occupy the below-decks spaces would be well justified in complaining over the last month that the "bloody boat" is leaking.
Approximately 100 farmers descended recently on Michael and David Hartnett’s beef farm in Whitegate, Co. Cork as part of an information evening organised by Bord Bia and Teagasc.
Global dairy prices fell for the fourth time in a row at an auction held early on Wednesday as ramped-up supply outpaced robust demand.
The Irish Farmers Association has said the Government should see their protest outside the Department of Agriculture today as a ‘warning shot’.
CAP schemes such as TAMS should include actions aimed at weather-proofing farm sheds to counter the growing ferocity and incidence of storms, the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA) has claimed.
The Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) has warned of "disastrous" consequences for farming in Northern Ireland should the UK crash out of the EU.
Four water supplies, one in Kilkenny, two in Limerick and one in Longford currently have a level of pesticides above the set EU standard, according to Irish Water.
Even city slicker cynics will acknowledge that 2018 has been a pretty vicious year for Irish farming.
The new runway plan at Dublin airport is casting a shadow over the Scully dairy enterprise in St Margarets, where the family's eldest, Áine, has taken the plunge and been farming in earnest with her dad Jim and uncle Danny for the two past years.
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, has today announced the appointment of Brendan Gleeson as the new Secretary General of the Department, following approval by the Government.
As we begin October we are all enjoying the ‘Indian’ summer that has engulfed the country for the past 10 days. I suppose in a way it is helping us to park Storm Ali which was a storm and a half.
Earlier this year, a farmer from Co Derry revealed he had become so disillusioned with farming he was planning to move to Canada to start again.
Sir — I could not start my tractor on Monday last week, having previously used it some days before to shift some silage bales. Was the battery flat, was the starter stuck, had I a flat tyre?
German company Huber Technik is poised to launch a newly designed cow mattress at EuroTier which has a unique sealing structure at both ends of the top cover.
Tomorrow's meeting of the Beef Forum will go ahead, despite the planned protest by IFA beef farmers outside the Department of Agriculture's headquarters.
Brexit minister Dominic Raab said on Monday Britain was looking at how regulatory checks on some goods could be used as part of a solution to move Brexit talks, notably a “backstop deal” for the Irish border, forward.
New draft rules to better protect farmers against buyers’ unfair trading practices were approved by the Agriculture Committee on Monday.
Herds which have had a bovine TB (bTB) breakdown could be prevented from trading with farms that have no recent history of the disease, under a raft of radical options being considered by the TB 2030 Stakeholder Forum.
Aldi has considered stockpiling food as part of its preparations for Brexit, the discount grocer’s UK boss said on Monday.
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