Event: Oxford Farming Conference

Oxford Farming Conference puts focus on brave opportunities

An agricultural sector with ambition needs to be bold and entrepreneurial, according to the chairman of the three-day Oxford Farming Conference which is scheduled to start tomorrow.

Mon, 04 Jan, 2016

Technology: Cool tool to help in the fight to cut greenhouse gas emissions on farms

The Cool Farm Tool is an online greenhouse gas calculator that is free for farmers, to help them measure the carbon footprint of crop and livestock products.

Thu, 29 Jan, 2015

Sensors make perfect sense

learns why Dairymaster chief Dr Edmond Harty believes farming has been revolutionised by innovative new technologies learns why Dairymaster chief Dr Edmond Harty believes farming has been revolutionised by innovative new technologies.

Mon, 26 Jan, 2015

Dairymaster chief to address Oxford farm conference

The chief executive of a global company based in Causeway, Co Kerry, will be one of the invited speakers at the prestigious Oxford Farming Conference which opens tomorrow and continues until Thursday.

Mon, 05 Jan, 2015

Cultivation is 90% about repairing compaction

Up to 90% of the energy expended in cultivation for crops goes to repair soil-compaction damage caused by the previous year’s farm machine travel.

Thu, 20 Feb, 2014

Divisions emerge as UK minister calls for approval of GM crops

Opinion remains divided between EU agriculture ministers following UK farm minister Owen Paterson’s call for EU approval of genetically modified (GM) crops and other agricultural innovations.

Thu, 09 Jan, 2014

Coveney: Better risk management tools needed after quotas abolished

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney said farmers would need additional risk management tools in place before EU milk quotas are lifted in 2015, including the creation of a futures market.

Thu, 09 Jan, 2014

Conference to discuss agricultural opportunities and funding

The opportunities in agriculture, how they can be funded, and how farms should be operated in the future will be the core questions discussed at next week’s Oxford Farming Conference.

Fri, 03 Jan, 2014

Success story that impressed China

Keenan is an Irish company employing 250 people with a turnover of €48m. It is seen as an Irish version of German SME, or Mittelstand, with much to tell us about success and recovery, writes Ray Ryan.

Mon, 11 Nov, 2013

Precision farming the way to go

Jake Freestone told the Oxford Farming Conference how precision farming helps him optimise yield from varying soil types across the 1,560 hectares of the Overbury Farms estate, which he manages.

Thu, 14 Feb, 2013

Precision farming technology the way forward

Precision farming technologies offer the only way to move forward in food production, according to one of the speakers at the recent Oxford Farming Conference in the UK.

Thu, 17 Jan, 2013

MEP acknowledges ‘essential service’

In her address to the Oxford Farming Conference, Mairead McGuinness, MEP, outlined the importance of farming and food production, and explained the history of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

Thu, 17 Jan, 2013

Greening to be one of amendments to commission’s CAP proposals

Greening according to farm size is predicted as one of 38 amendments to the European Commission’s CAP proposals due from the European Parliament’s agriculture committee later this month.

Thu, 10 Jan, 2013

CAP negotiations expected to see British single farm payments cut

BRITISH farmers are likely to see the annual payment they receive from the government fall in coming years, Britain’s farming minister Jim Paice said, adding he favoured its eventual abolition as global food prices rise.

Fri, 06 Jan, 2012

Irish lessons at Oxford

IRISH speakers created much impact at the prestigious recent Oxford Farming Conference.

Thu, 13 Jan, 2011

EU policy ‘morally wrong’ as it undercuts developing countries

EUROPEAN Union farm policy is “morally wrong” because it undercuts agriculture in developing countries with import tariffs and export subsidies, said Caroline Spelman, the British environment secretary.

Fri, 07 Jan, 2011

Walshe says Irish agriculture can benefit from British opportunities

IRISH agriculture has a key strategic role in contributing to British and European Union food security, the Irish Farmers Association president Padraig Walshe declared yesterday.

Sat, 09 Jan, 2010

Food security just as crucial as energy supply, conference told

ENSURING food security is just as important to the world’s future as energy supply, British Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Hilary Benn, told delegates at the Oxford Farming Conference yesterday.

Wed, 06 Jan, 2010

Britain launches first major food plan in 60 years

BRITAIN’S first major food strategy for 60 years, which Environment Secretary Hilary Benn will launch at the Oxford Farming Conference today, will call for a sea change in the way people think about farming.

Tue, 05 Jan, 2010

Organise to feed the world

FARMERS will produce for a profitable market, if the price signal gets through to them.

Thu, 24 Jan, 2008

Agriculture deemed an important industry again by world demand

RISING world demand, climate change and energy security have combined to make agriculture a strategically important industry once again.

Fri, 04 Jan, 2008

EU to review CAP reform and plan for 2013

THE Common Agricultural Policy of the new century in the European Union is much more closely geared to helping farmers in their efforts to be competitive.

Sat, 06 Jan, 2007

British Sugar biofuel plant to use sugar beet and other foodstocks

BRITISH SUGAR is building a processing plant in Norfolk that will use sugar beet and other feedstocks to produce biofuels.

Fri, 05 Jan, 2007

Agri-food sector key component of Ireland’s rural strategy

AGRICULTURE still represents the main option for economic activity in many rural areas and will continue to make an important contribution to the overall Irish economy.

Thu, 04 Jan, 2007

Cameron urges British farmers to tap into environmental market

FARMERS can help tackle global warming by doing everything from supplying wool for home insulation and growing energy crops to making breeze blocks out of hemp or producing biomass for heat and power, British Tory leader David Cameron said yesterday.

Thu, 04 Jan, 2007

Coughlan invited to farm conference

AGRICULTURE and Food Minister Mary Coughlan will address the Oxford Farming Conference in January.

Tue, 07 Nov, 2006

Union boss says British farmers accept change but timing is vital

THE Common Agricultural Policy has already been reformed, but one would not think so listening to politicians, the Oxford Farming Conference was told.

Sat, 07 Jan, 2006

People key to rural economy

PEOPLE are the key to sustainability in the rural economy, rural environment and rural community, a farm leader from Northern Ireland told the Oxford Farming Conference yesterday.

Wed, 08 Jan, 2003