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The court judgement threatens to make a wide range of routine land-use and outdoor activities potentially incompatible with EU law.
Bord Bia chair in hot water over Brazilian beef imports
Taoiseach backs Murrin amid mounting Bord Bia controversy
Sinn Féin calls on Larry Murrin to resign as chair of Bord Bia
Larry Murrin has engaged with Bord Bia board on imports – Minister
Action needed 'quickly' to stop straw imports
The continued contraction in the dairy and beef herds, and increased usage of sexed semen last year, will results in less calves being available for shipping.
The overall US cattle kill is expected to fall by 1.5 to 2 million head in 2026 on the back of lower cattle imports from Mexico and a falling herd size.
A total of 37,610 TB reactors were identified in the 12 months from the 8 December 2024 to the 7 December 2025. This was a drop of 3,195 on the previous 12-month period.
The EU’s Common Market Organisation proposals have been the subject of unsuccessful trialogue negotiations in Brussels.
The challenge of operating as a profitable and successful co-op in the meat sector was cruelly exposed during the cattle crisis of 1974-75.
The closure by Cork Marts of its Irish Meat Packers (IMP) factories in December 1985 sounded the death knell for direct farmer involvement in beef and lamb processing.
Ireland has targets to reestablish some 10,000 hectares of old sessile oak woodland by 2030, as well 4,000 hectares of alluvial woodlands.
'One of our best machinery purchases ever': Jim Mulhall on the Amazone ZA-V 'I’d go far as saying in all the machines and all the years we’ve been buying machinery here, this is probably one of the best purchases we’ve ever made.'
