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Farm organisations react to 'crude' Trump tariffs
James Hanly
The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA), Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association (ICSA) and the Green Party have given their opinions on the recently announced tariffs on the EU.
2 April 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: easy answer to Trump tariffs - make farming great again
Let’s take the initiative and keep control of what is good for rural Ireland.
2 April 2025 Renewables
Appealed AD plant is next step for Country Crest
Dublin’s Country Crest was refused permission for the anaerobic digestion plant in February and has strongly criticised this decision in its appeal to An Bord Pleanála.
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Farmland ownership to be examined
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Camera at the Mart: 'these prices are the new norm' - manager
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Calf prices rise in marts
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Disease risks to farm animals greater than at any stage in recent years
Climate and environment
West Clare farmer rewets peatland with county council
Dempsey at Large: there is something not working in the grain market
As European total food output declines, a trend that is also happening in Ireland, our policymakers should be looking at the factors that are operating against European and Irish growers.
2 April 2025 Viewpoints
CAP ‘must return’ to focus on sustainable food production – Carbery
The Midlands Northwest MEP was speaking from the European Parliament at a conference on ‘Strengthening Food Security and Strategic Autonomy in the EU’ on Wednesday.
26 March 2025 News
Wexford event to mark a century of harvesting
A unique event in Wexford next July will feature all the processes used to harvest grain from antiquity to the present day.
19 March 2025 News
Opinion: whiskey tariffs are the cloud in bright March skies
Good weather means a spring in the step of farmers planting crops, but the markets are not as bright as the weather, with tariffs (yet again) a threat.
15 March 2025 Opinion
Editorial: past mistakes haunting Department initiatives
Farmers have lost confidence in the officials before the game has started.
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
New project to explore value of biodiversity actions on farms
The ‘Farming Resilience and Management through Natural Capital’ project received over €325,000 in the 2024 research call to run over two years starting this March.
26 February 2025 Climate and environment
Will tanks and bombs blow the CAP budget?
With the US indicating an unwillingness to continue to support Ukraine, it may fall to Europe to help keep Russia's invaders at bay. It may come at the cost of badly needed extra CAP funding.
26 February 2025 Dealer
Editorial: the next CAP vision
There is talk of incentives rather than conditions, however, all that for me is ‘stay on the same road’ type language, just maybe trying to say it in a different way.
19 February 2025 Viewpoints
Commission environment and health sector policies a worry - Heydon
Minister Martin Heydon made the comment while speaking at the Irish Grain Growers Group AGM in Portlaoise on Friday, in which he disagreed with measures that limit food production.
14 February 2025 News