POTENTIAL cuts in the EU’s agricultural budget for the 2021 to 2027 period could have catastrophic consequences for farming in the West of Ireland, it was...
THERE have been renewed calls this week from farm leaders and the Minister for Agriculture for the meat factories ‘to play ball’ in terms of paying...
FORMER Galway IFA County Chairman, Pat Murphy, will be bidding to succeed Padraic Joyce as Connacht IFA Chair when the position becomes vacant over the coming...
A VICIOUS sting in the tail from Storm Georgina closed the M17 motorway between Tuam and Athenry for two hours on Wednesday morning after a hail...
HUNDREDS of farmers dotted across Galway and the West of Ireland region facing fodder shortages this winter are hoping that a national Crisis Action Team to...
GALWAY farmers took part in a supermarket protest yesterday in Portlaoise aimed at highlighting the ‘loss leader’ sales of milk across some of the major retail...
MINISTER for Agriculture, Michael Creed, has been called upon to directly intervene and clear the way for outstanding payments to be made to GLAS farmers still...
THE Galway farmer – close to the new motorway project – who had his dairy herd decimated by a TB outbreak last year, never wants anyone...
