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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.
Birds Directive ruling could clip the wings of farming and forestry
Close to 20% increase in calf throughput for Cork Marts in 2025
Farmers answer Fitzmaurice’s protest call over Mercosur deal
Mercosur would not prevent EU ban on Brazilian beef on food safety grounds
Pedigree breeding for the love of it
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.
Consistency and calf health key to Offaly farmer’s success For Offaly dairy and sheep farmers, husband-and-wife team Ann Maire Butterfield and Stephen McQuade, AAA Golden Maverick has always been part of the story.
