For farming families, like everyone else, 2020 was an ‘Annus horribilis’ [horrible year]. Galway farmers through battled through it – here Galway IFA Chairperson ANNE MITCHELL...
THE Late Late Toy Show at the end of November could have played a key role in ensuring that buyers were allowed back in at ringside...
By John Greaney WHILE Covid-19 has challenged us all throughout the past 12 months, dairy farmers will face a new challenge in 2021, namely trying to...
AGREEMENT on a new strategy for the reduction and eventual eradication of bovine TB was reached last week between the Dept. of Agriculture, farmer bodies and...
SHANE DOLPHIN from Gurtymadden is a final year Agricultural Science student (Dairy Business) in UCD. Here he looks at the origins of the Nitrates Derogation and...
FARMERS with disabilities resulting from workplace injuries and who need to purchase specialist equipment such as hoists, will now be able to set-off the costs against...
OVER 10,700 farmers in Connacht and Clare are set to receive a pay-out of over €15.4 million in the BEEP-S scheme before Christmas. A total of...
ANOTHER warning has been issued this week about the implications for the Irish timber industry unless the licence backlog for the felling of trees is resolved...