ICOS livestock and environment executive Ray Doyle said, “We must strictly enforce methods of operating within the safety parameters laid down by the Government, or marts will need to close.

Dairy farmers maintaining a distance while collection vehicles enter their farms.

Denis Lehane Stephen Shorten is a bright, articulate and hardworking farmer. He lives and farms in Enniskeane, Co Cork.

Agriculture Minister Michael Creed has extended the closing date for Beef Exceptional Aid Measure (BEAM) applications, and announced details of online clinics where his Department will help applicants.

When you’re on the way to going broke, injunctions forbidding you from protesting at beef processing factories are not your biggest worry.

Graduates of the intensive new Mart Management Development Programme will help underpin succession in Ireland’s co-operative marts, say programme hosts Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS).

Language students, who in some cases paid as much as €4,800 to study here, have been left “high and dry” following the sudden closure of an agency offering packages across the country.

Climate change is the challenge of our generation and for generations to come, ICOS president Michael Spellman said at the co-op umbrella groups 124th annual meeting in Killenard, Co Laois.

The threat of EU trade agreements harming Ireland’s main farming sectors has doubled, with negotiations with New Zealand moving forward rapidly.

Legislation due to prohibit the blanket use of antibiotics on dairy farms by 2022 is a priority issue for the newly rebranded Milk Quality Ireland.

Farmers have welcomed the launch of Glanbia Ireland and Kepak’s new Twenty20 Beef Club, offering members a guaranteed market for their heifers and steers.

ICOS has welcomed the European Parliament’s agriculture committee vote 29-7 in favour of proposals to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post-2020.

Young farmers can ensure their own future profitability by playing a lead role in the co-operative movement, according to the president of Spain’s leading agri co-op.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has joined in efforts to increase facilities in France needed for increased Irish live exports, following warnings by exporters that calf prices will collapse.

The old reliables in the budget used to be tobacco and drink, so-called because taxes were added on every year.

Dairy farmers in Ireland may need multiple risk management tools to address income volatility, according to an evaluation published this week.

The EU proposed yesterday to cut funding for the Common Agricultural Policy by 5%, but some in Brussels warned the new budget plan could cut farm income supports for 2021-27 by 8.5%, and rural development measures 17.5%.

Farmers have welcomed Agriculture Minster Michael Creed’s fodder transport scheme for livestock farmers in the west and northwest.

The agri-food sector continues to play a crucial role in Ireland’s economic recovery with our exports valued at €11.15bn in 2016, marking incredible growth of over 56% since 2009.

Farmers have given a cautious welcome to Glanbia’s plan to sell 60% of its Irish dairy business to Glanbia Co-op, creating a new Glanbia Ireland joint venture in a deal worth €112m.

Agriculture must share in Ireland’s bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% relative to the 2005 level.