FOOD inflation — a blip or a trend — is one of the questions being discussed at this year’s Agricultural Science Association national conference, which takes place in the Radisson Hotel Galway on September 12.

A GENERAL guide for the first-time horse and pony owner has been compiled by the Teagasc Equine Advisory Team.

Thousands of elderly Irish men are living in isolation, cut off from their communities, writes Conor Kane.

A DECISION by the European Parliament on the regulation of plant protection products has been criticised by the Agricultural Science Association.

A SENIOR Teagasc executive, Gerry Scully, has been elected president of the Agricultural Science Association (ASA). He takes over from Dr Dermot Ruane of UCD, whose term of office expired in mid-September.

EXPERTS in dairy goat farming from Ireland and Britain will address a Teagasc conference on the sector in Tullamore, Co Offaly, on Friday.

FARMING in Leitrim will disappear in the next generation.

THE new president of the Agricultural Science Association (ASA, the representative body for graduates in agriculture, food, forestry, horticulture and environmental sciences), is Dermot Ruane.

The growth of retirement villages will allow more older people to stay independent, it was claimed today.

Freezing winds, ice and snow are on the way to Ireland for the next few days.

MAKE the most of the good weather, because the bad news is that it won’t last too long.

The gang who raided a midlands gunshop earlier booked into Gerry Scully’s bed and breakfast and locked the owners into a room.

Gardai have launched a massive search for a six strong gang who raided a fire arms dealer.