Opinion
Letter to the editor: 'We shouldn’t be fobbed off...because we don’t have direct evidence'
I felt the need to write to you in relation to your article on the Jim Power [beef sector] report,...
Opinion
I felt the need to write to you in relation to your article on the Jim Power [beef sector] report,...
Opinion
To my utter disbelief, I discovered during recent days that chicken is being imported from China and sold in some...
Opinion
Over the last number of weeks I have noticed an expensive advertisement in a farming publication by Trócaire exhorting farmers...
Opinion
If some farmers do not cease what they are doing under current planning legislation, they run the risk of prosecution...
Opinion
It was great to read your report [published on Saturday, February 29] on women in agri-business networks. The title of...
Opinion
I wonder what will be in fashion next? Currently veganism is very much in vogue; unfortunately, this is at the...
Opinion
Having grown up on a beef farm in rural Ireland, I have spent the past two decades working for global...
Opinion
I felt it necessary to write to you to highlight the cost that carbon tax is going to impose on...
Opinion
I think it is necessary to give some balance following the letter you published slating the greyhound industry on Tuesday...
Opinion
I’m farming in rural Ireland – with 300 ewes and some sucklers. I’m writing in response to your recent ‘Opinion’...
Opinion
Last year – 2019 – was the year when we saw just how tenacious a grip the greyhound industry has...
Opinion
I ask if Teagasc has been, or continues to be, an agency for ‘misdirection’? After all, the purpose of farming is...
Opinion
I was sad reading last week’s letter from Mr. Fitzpatrick. I can just imagine how disappointed he would be if...
Dairy
Over the past decade, with the removal of milk quotas, the dairy industry has become the new face of Irish...
Opinion
I was prompted to write after reading your article on whether a left-leaning government would favour farmers. Issues that are...
Opinion
Within a typical food-chain – from producer to processor to retailer to customer – the various stages, and the people...