AN end to brucellosis testing after 40 years is now on the cards following the application by Northern Ireland to have the Six Counties declared ‘brucellosis...
FARM leaders in Galway have given a guarded welcome to Budget 2015, but concerns have been expressed that no GLAS money will come on stream next...
A ‘COMMITMENT’ from the Government that there will be further cuts in the farming budget this year needs to be complemented with a number of initiatives...
A NEW Department of Agriculture service to farm families who have suffered bereavements as a result of sudden tragedies resulting primarily from accidents and suicides, has...
Farmers have been advised to ‘play it safe’ when it comes to the selling of weanlings directly from their yards to private operators. According to Co. Galway IFA...
About 200 farmers and close on 50 tractors launched another of their blitz demonstrations at the Lidl supermarket in Ballinasloe last week in protest over the...
DISGRUNTLED western hill farmers have this week staged a picket at the Castlebar Office of Taoiseach Enda Kenny ‘for as long as it takes’ to bring...
A BEEF meeting in Navan this week where ‘there was skin and hair flying’ could spark an autumn of protest across the country with the factories...
