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Opinion
Why should farmers fund their own aid package?
Last week’s news of an ‘Aids to Private Storage’ support package for the dairy sector is a welcome development. But...
Opinion
Last week’s news of an ‘Aids to Private Storage’ support package for the dairy sector is a welcome development. But...
Beef
Surprise; surprise: 84% of those who participated in our most recent poll affirmed their belief that the collection of levies...
Opinion
This week’s aid package announcement by Brussels may well turn out to be a double-edged sword for the Irish dairy...
Opinion
The latest figures from the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine show that cattle supplies at export meat plants...
Opinion
Anyone with either a current interest in dairy farming – or who intends getting involved in the sector – should...
Opinion
Courtesy of the presentation given by Teagasc’s James O’Loughlin, delegates attending this week’s Virginia Show Dairy Conference were left in...
Opinion
So far this year, 20 people have died in accidents on Irish farms. In 2011, 22 people died on farms. In...
Opinion
The anger at the IFA beef meeting in Navan was palpable from the outset and farmers began to leave in despair at...
Opinion
The Northern Minster for Agriculture Michelle O’Neill’s decision to seek a change to the EU beef labelling regulations, in the...
Opinion
I have noticed a growing annoyance in recent weeks among livestock farmers about the on-going situation within the beef industry....
Opinion
It’s great to see demand for third-level ag science qualifications growing throughout the island of Ireland. This, no doubt, reflects...
Dairy
Like it or not we live in interesting times. Dairy farmers today operate in a production environment of unprecedented uncertainty...
Opinion
Speaking at the Tullamore Show this week the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Simon Coveney said that he...
Dairy
The ban on food exports to Russia, which was announced last week, could not have happened at a better or...
Agri-Business
Irish Shows Association President Jim Harrison is calling on all agricultural show societies to include a food village as part...
Opinion
Let’s be clear about this: the European Union helped cause the current outbreak of ‘trade embargo’ related hostilities between Russia...
Opinion
I was recently involved in a discussion with a small group of west of Ireland dairy farmers. While delighted with...
Opinion
I had the good fortune to travel from Dublin to Zurich with Swissair recently. From the time you get on...