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Environment
New research shows farmers want 'payment' for water quality measures
Farmers believe they should receive payment for measures leading to improvement in water quality, either as payment for environmental performance...
Environment
Farmers believe they should receive payment for measures leading to improvement in water quality, either as payment for environmental performance...
Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has been called upon to investigate food labels in supermarkets to...
Agri-Business
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has called for any fall in wholesale diesel price to be immediately passed onto the...
Agri-Business
The former chief executive of Bord Bia, Tara McCarthy has said that many farmers feel vilified and unrecognised for their...
Rural Life
The Tánaiste intends to raise the “VAT rebate question for those in agriculture” with the Minister for Finance to ensure...
Beef News
The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers’ Association (ICMSA) has branded last week’s beef price cuts as “deliberate, targeted and geographic”. The...
Rural Life
A farmer in Co. Kerry has said that consultation with farmers will be crucial to the success of Ireland’s newest...
Agri Politics
It is time for the agriculture sector and farming “matters” to start “getting treated with a little bit of respect”...
Dairy
Farmers in Co. Down received €115.9 million in milk payments – topping Lakeland Dairies’ milk payments league table for 2023....
Opinion
Newly installed Taoiseach Simon Harris has already fired out a number of well-used and hackneyed platitudes in the direction of...
N.Ireland
Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart has said that “unrelenting” wet weather means farmers are facing continued financial pressure. Lockhart, who...
Agri-Business
A senator is calling for a debate to take place in the Seanad next week to discuss the challenges currently...
Agri-Business
The president of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers’ Association (ICMSA) is calling for the National Fodder and Food Security Committee...
Agri-Business
Ireland’s first Agri-Food Regulator, which was established to promote “fairness and transparency” in the agri-food supply chain, has just passed...
Agri Politics
The European Commission wants to “ease the pressure on farmers by reducing the administrative burden, together with member states,” president,...
CAP / Schemes
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has welcomed EU Commission proposals to simplify the Common Agriculture Policy...
Environment
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has confirmed that a “small number” of farmers who are not participating...
Agri-Business
Independent TD Michael Lowry has told the Dáil that bureaucracy is “smothering farmers” and that the “actual pleasure” of farming is...