Within 10 years, costs per cow have risen from €1,500 to over €3,000 for a standard cubicle shed with slurry storage.

The result of any retirement or renewal scheme has to be young people coming into farming, the Minister for Agriculture has ...

In Ireland, blackleg was also variously known as black-quarter (with its Irish variants ‘cheathrú dhubh’ and ‘cheathrú ghorm’ ...

This week’s show comes to you from Ratheniska, Co Laois, and the National Ploughing Championships. You have full access to ...

Minister Pippa Hackett insists that tillage farmers would see strong demand for their grain if they converted to organics.

Milk prices have been up across the board for August, with Dairygold, Kerry Dairy and Lakeland Dairies also lifting their ...

A payment of £75/head is available under BCR for all NI-born prime cattle that are slaughtered under 30 months of age from ...

Lakeland Dairies dairy farmer and chair, Niall Matthews spelled out in a note to An Taoiseach the stark reality of not ...

I see that Stuart Sands has been appointed the new CEO of Boortmalt UK and Ireland. Sands is a former CEO of Anglia Maltings ...

August brought an unusually high amount of rainfall, with our weather station recording 167mm, which is 186% above Castlederg ...

Farmers facing tight grass supplies will have much more options to overcome challenges if they take stock of current ...

There was no doubt about it – the positivity from politicians towards everything to do with food and farming was aired at ...