• Some 24 farmers and one agricultural contractor were fined in the Revenue Commissioners' first quarter of 2017 tax defaulter list.

  • Sale agreed on chicken processor Manor Farm with Swedish chicken processing company Scandi Standard announcing that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the firm.

  • In a further twist to the Brazilian meat scandal, the country’s president Michel Temer has been charged with corruption
  • Watch: Rúnar Bjarnason milks 65 native Icelandic cows on his 400ha farm, Reykir á Skeidum, near Selfoss town in western Iceland.
  • Some inspectors are gaining a reputation for being “draconian in their interpretation of the rules” and being “unreasonable”, the IFA has claimed.

    • Photo of the day

    Courtesy of the Irish Farmers Journal picture desk, here is our photo of the day: