by Kevin | Jul 29, 2014 | Press Releases
July 29th 2014Successive price cutting by meat factories over the past 12 months has cost Irish beef farmers a cumulative €168 million according to an ICSA analysis. This analysis is based on the premise that there has been no justification for severe price cuts given...
by Kevin | Jul 29, 2014 | Press Releases
29th July 2014 *Article first published in The Irish Examiner of July 28th 2014 So 2014 is the UN International Year of Family Farming. Meaning what, exactly? On the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation website dedicated to the topic, there’s a photo competition...
by Kevin | Jul 29, 2014 | Press Releases
July 29th 2014ICSA suckler chairman Dermot Kelleher has called on the government to ensure that Teagasc has adequate resources to help farmers with GLAS applications.”Earlier this year, Teagasc announced a €10m investment in its research facility at Moorepark,...
by Kevin | Jul 28, 2014 | General News
July 28th The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has commenced notifying certain farmers of their interim Nitrogen statement covering cattle numbers held on the farm for the first 6 months of 2014. This is being done by text message with messages...
by Kevin | Jul 28, 2014 | Video
July 29, 2014 – Food & Agriculture In this special briefing, AGRA FACTS journalists Rose O’Donovan & Ed Bray provide an overview of the top 5 agriculture issues on the agenda under the Italian EU Presidency. Revision of rules...