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The largest farming group in the country is to coordinate a national response to cover for farmers who fall ill or have to self-isolate during the coronavirus pandemic.
Wed, 18 Mar, 2020
Tue, 03 Mar, 2020
Cork North had highest number of positive tests for bovine disease.
Wed, 19 Feb, 2020
Here is a selection of people who have begun new roles with companies and organisations in Ireland, including OneLogin, 3Sixty, Philip Lee, Learning Pool, Irish Farmers’ Association and Cork County Council
Thu, 13 Feb, 2020
Exports of Irish food, drinks and horticulture grew to a record €13bn in 2019, capping a decade of extraordinary growth with exports increasing by 67% or €5.5bn, from the 2010 levels.
Thu, 09 Jan, 2020
Retailer Aldi has said it is “extremely disappointed” that farmers have protested at its distribution centre in Co Kildare - but demonstrators have warned the picket is the first of many to come.
Thu, 05 Dec, 2019
Farmers will see an immediate increase in the price they receive for their cattle following a deal with meat producers.
Mon, 16 Sep, 2019
Tensions between protesting beef farmers and meat producers have escalated after an industry body said its members will seek legal action against the farmers who have been picketing outside factories causing significant production problems and layoffs.
Fri, 09 Aug, 2019
A progressive budget that supports farmers to develop sustainably was sought yesterday by the Irish Farmers’ Association.
Wed, 24 Jul, 2019
In an increasingly uncertain world, the idea of permanence is ephemeral; bedrock can begin to seem like sand. Change is accelerating and to survive we must adapt.
Mon, 08 Jul, 2019
The Agriculture Minister has denied he has pulled the wool over farmers’ eyes in announcing a €100m Brexit beef fund.
Mon, 24 Jun, 2019
The publication of the Government’s Climate Action Plan comes at the same time as the EU Commission is pushing hard to complete a South American trade deal.
Sun, 23 Jun, 2019
A simplification of some of the requirements of the Beef Data and Genomics Programme, in relation to the eligibility of stock bulls, has been welcomed by the Irish Farmers’ Association.
Fri, 21 Jun, 2019
Farmers, road users, and machinery contractors are being urged to take extra care on the roads and in the fields and farmyards as silage cutting season continues and the school holidays begin.
Mon, 17 Jun, 2019
Distance in today’s world erects no barriers to the spread of contagion, which is why Agriculture Minister Michael Creed and the president of the Irish Farmers’ Association have issued warnings about the westward path of African swine fever, an infection that threatens no harm to humans but which kills pigs and wild boar.
Fri, 07 Jun, 2019
The farm lobby has gone on high alert amid rising fears that the European Union could reach a deal with the Mercosur group of South American countries in the coming months.
Thu, 30 May, 2019
The declaration that there is a climate emergency must lead to Government action campaigners and opposition politicians have said.
Fri, 10 May, 2019
Philip O’Leary, managing partner of Cork law firm FitzGerald Legal & Advisory, has been appointed as a board member to the Irish Banking Culture Board (IBCB), funded by Ireland’s five main retail banks with the aim of rebuilding trust in the sector.
Fri, 26 Apr, 2019
Tedium brings great vulnerability; a wavering, easily-broken concentration means important decisions can be made or, worse, neglected as we daydream.
Wed, 27 Mar, 2019
Agriculture minister Michael Creed has promised farmers a “substantial” aid package if they suffer losses as a result of new UK tariffs under a no-deal Brexit.
Mon, 25 Mar, 2019
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has said the imposition of tariffs as outlined by UK proposals in a no-deal Brexit would put Irish farmers in a “vulnerable position”, threatening the Irish beef sector and seriously damaging the country’s agri-food exports.
Thu, 14 Mar, 2019
Outlining unpleasant-looking tariffs that will cost Irish farmers dearly could cause the alliance between Ireland the other EU member states to creak a little, says Noel Baker.
Farming is “in danger of running off a cliff edge” and dying out unless drastic action is taken to entice young people to enter the sector.
Thu, 27 Dec, 2018
Farming families are being “preyed upon” by so-called vulture funds who are “killing off farm businesses”, while small businesses are being intimidated into silence, according to bodies representing the sectors.
Fri, 19 Oct, 2018
Some €1.5bn worth of so-called “warehoused mortgages” — where some regular payments are agreed and the rest of the sum is parked to the end of the term — will become the next controversy involving Irish customers.
The Agriculture Minister has been accused by farm organisations of failing to grasp the enormity of the fodder crisis, and they warn that immediate supports are needed to stave off another emergency.
Wed, 08 Aug, 2018
Farmers fear the UK’s plans for Brexit could lead to international trade deals that would undercut prices and “destroy the livelihoods of tens of thousands of Irish family farmers”.
Tue, 17 Jul, 2018
Imagine if the drought went on all summer? I think that’s the worry which is niggling at many of us.
Thu, 05 Jul, 2018
EU agriculture commissioner Phil Hogan has moved to reassure Irish farmers amid concerns over the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Sat, 23 Jun, 2018
Carbon taxes, an end of subsidies for peat extraction, and a tax on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are some of the recommendations made by the Citizens’ Assembly.
Thu, 19 Apr, 2018
Farmers have welcomed a beef deal with China which will open up a multimillion-euro market to Irish producers.
Tue, 17 Apr, 2018
Rose Martin discusses a new scheme that offers help to rural dwellers living on local and private roads before looking further afield at an interesting incentive to revive a dying mountaintop town in Sardinia, Italy
Sun, 04 Mar, 2018
Medics at Cork University Hospital have raised concerns about the lack of mandatory safety training for farmers.
Fri, 12 Jan, 2018
The Government recouped just €3.2m from the sale of more than 40 Garda stations, a total described as “derisory”.
Wed, 10 Jan, 2018
It was a one-day event, with lifelong consequences for the families of its three victims, and ongoing ramifications for households, schools, transport, businesses, the health service, forestry, and farming.
Tue, 17 Oct, 2017
The Government has been accused of being “Dublin-centric” after it emerged that almost half of the new Garda recruits who have been assigned to Garda divisions in the last three years have been stationed in Dublin.
Wed, 27 Sep, 2017
Just two-in-five farmers wear sun screen.
Thu, 21 Sep, 2017
A top ploughman died in a farm accident in Wexford yesterday as some of his family were at the National Ploughing Championships in Offaly.
Wed, 20 Sep, 2017
Energy production can be compatible with food productionm or other land uses that are beneficial to society.
Mon, 21 Aug, 2017
Farmers have said it is impossible to see how the Irish border can stay open and free of checkpoints under the Brexit proposals.
Thu, 17 Aug, 2017
Farmers have been warned to take extra care to avoid polluting rivers and waterways after Inland Fisheries Ireland said more than a quarter of last year’s fish kills were linked to agriculture.
Tue, 01 Aug, 2017
Killarney National Park has maintained its status as a Unesco world biosphere reserve. However, plans to extend the area of reserve five-fold have been delayed.
Mon, 26 Jun, 2017
Fertiliser manufacturer Yara says that rising global commodity prices and UK currency fluctuations have led them to implement a series of fertiliser product price increases this year.
Sat, 11 Feb, 2017
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