The wet weather is hampering farmers getting their slurry storage tanks emptied after winter.
The last 18 years have seen the UK dairy sector securing enhanced levels of environmental sustainability across the industry.
Edward Delahunty, who farms with his father Martin in Freshford, Co Kilkenny, is a long-term Irish Hereford Prime beef ...
Teagasc, Ireland’s agricultural development authority, has teamed up with Munster Technological University (MTU) to create a guide for dairy farmers to install solar on their farms. The guide aims to ...
Founded in 1961 as the Irish Dairy Board, a government body tasked with exporting Ireland’s dairy produce, Ornua (meaning ‘new gold’ in Irish Gaelic) now exports to 110 markets around the globe each ...
The IFA is far and away the largest and most powerful representative group for farmers in the country. It has around 72,000 ...
Payments of €20 per eligible calf (up to a maximum of 50 calves per applicant herd) will be made to eligible participants ...
There was strong output across both the dairy and tillage sectors last year, while beef and sheep production fell - according to a report from Teagasc on Ireland's agri-food sector. Though the study ...
Ireland’s Origin Green programme is the world’s only (so far) government-led sustainability programme for the food and drink sector. Encompassing the government and the private sector, it stretches ...
All these issues were explored in the recent event, Rooted in Strength: Women, Climate and Food Justice, celebrating the role ...