Farm incomes rose almost a third last year, an income spike likely to be short-lived with falling commodity prices, Teagasc has warned.

FARMER protests are set to escalate across Europe, after the only decision taken by agriculture ministers in Brussels, was to give a panel of experts nine months to report back on the dairy crisis.

European Commission chiefs today rebutted Irish farmers’ demands for an EU ban on Brazilian beef imports.

Indian health officials went door-to-door today searching for people possibly sickened by the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus.