Josephine O’Neill, Macra’s president-elect, has some interesting connections to people of significance in Irish agriculture. Her grandaunt Margaret was married to former Minister for Agriculture Jim ...

ESB Networks is seeking more powers in relation to land access in response to the mass outages caused by trees falling on power lines during storm Éowyn, the ICMSA has said. The storm left more than ...

On Tuesday, the Department published a “Blueprint for Eradication” of bovine TB in NI, put together by the TB Partnership Steering Group (TBPSG). The origins of the group go back to a review of TB by ...

The big news this week was the positive Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction result, where the index increased by 1.6%. The main mover was whole milk powder (WMP), which increased in price by 2.8% and ...

I want to appeal to the Irish AI bodies to carefully consider the decision to control the intellectual property or, more accurately, the breeding independence of the national herd. Recently, Matt ...

Ornua CEO Conor Galvin remains optimistic about the prospects for the Kerrygold brand, particularly in the key US market, despite the uncertainty created by what he described as “global trade tensions ...

The Flynn family are lifelong suckler farmers and agricultural contractors based in Naul, Co Dublin. Today, the business is headed up by Pat Flynn having taken over the reins from his late father, ...

Making bales on hire since 1995, it’s fair to say Sean Gilligan (below) has seen his fair share of bales across three decades. Based in Skehanagh, Co Galway, Sean runs an agricultural business, with ...

Ireland’s newest electricity interconnector has officially been opened. The Greenlink Interconnector, on which construction was completed last year, links the Great Island substation in Co Wexford to ...

The new CAP conditionality measure introduced this year is causing a fair degree of angst and confusion at farm level. Our Department officials say they are waiting on Europe to finalise what has been ...

The first Dutch Spotted sale of the year kicked of in Swatragh Livestock Market with a bang on Friday night. There was small entry of quality lots on offer attracting a large crowd of buyers from ...

Like Christy Moore’s song about the two island swans, curlews also mate for life. However, with just 95 breeding pairs left in Ireland, a lot of work needs to be done to reinvigorate the curlew ...