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Any fool can reduce the pressure on nature by just doing less, Simon Coveney has said.
Fuel scheme payment of €650 for farmers and €6,000 for contractors
Six-week old Belgian Blue-cross calf sells for €1,180 in Portumna Mart
Investigation into €3.5m young farmer fraud in Romania
Calf price update: prices falling in line with 2025 levels
Low-cost stockproof fencing is an art that's hard to master
Brief news snippets from Netherlands, Australia, Kazakhstan and Brazil.
A rise in suckler numbers here might be welcome, but who would have expected a decline in beef cow numbers elsewhere to impact dairy prices here.
Chicken has been a low-cost competitor for beef over decades. Greater access for beef imports through trade deals is a new challenge.
FAO report shows that pig and poultry are the dominant meat proteins with modest expansion in beef output and slight decline in sheepmeat output in 2025.
Brief news snippets from United States, Australia, Indonesia and Germany.
Greater competition from Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Poland has eroded Ireland’s dominant position in the UK beef import market.
As the EU Mercosur trade deal comes into effect provisionally, Irish beef producers will be hoping the EU assurances on its impact prove correct
New Zealand dairy tech open day to take place on Laois farm Irish dairy farmers will have the opportunity to see the latest technologies from New Zealand at an on-farm open day at Camcloon Dairy, Ballyfin, Co Laois, on Tuesday 19 May 2026 from 10am.
