Farming

National Dairy Council Confirmed As A Sponsor Of Good Food Ireland Awards

The National Dairy Council (NDC) recently announced that it is sponsoring the Outstanding Contribution to Food Production award at this year’s Good F...

Irish Distillers And Heineken Join Forces On Regenerative Agriculture Project For Malting Barley

Irish Distillers and Heineken Ireland are coming together for a three year collaboration which will support malting barley farmers in adopting regener...

Optimism Levels At A Five-Year Low For Irish Food & Agribusiness SMEs, Says IFAC

Optimism levels among Irish food and agribusiness SMEs has plummeted to a five-year low, research shows.

Fertiliser-Maker Yara Warns On Shortages

Norway's Yara, one of the world's biggest fertiliser producers, warned there could be shortages of nitrogen-based fertilisers due to high gas prices a...

Farmers In Brazil Remove Dead Coffee Trees, Some Switching To Grains

Brazilian farmers who had coffee fields severely damaged a month ago by the worst frosts in 27 years have started taking out dead trees to make room for ne...

EU Tries Again To Strike Deal On Greener Farming Subsidies

European Union negotiators will seek a deal on Thursday to make the bloc's huge farming subsidies greener, after disagreements on rules to curb agriculture...

Sustainable Dairy, Sustainable Future

Zoe Kavanagh, CEO of the National Dairy Council, explains some of the work being undertaken by Irish dairy farmers as part of Sustainable Dairy in Europe,...

Origin's Attributes Reduced FY Outlook To 'Challenging Weather Conditions'

Origin Enterprises plc today announced a reduced outlook for the full year ending 31 July 2020 following the 'impact of prolonged and challenging weather c...