Phelim O'Neill
On Thursday night, farmersjournal.ie streamed a beef demo including breeding and markets advice as well as Farm Profit Programme updates live from Thainstone mart in Inverurie.
By Farmers Journal on 02 November 2017
Time is ticking on Brexit talks. The EU can afford to let events take their course, UK exporters, particularly those in the most exposed Scottish sector, sheep meat, cannot, writes Phelim O'Neill.
By Phelim O'Neill on 21 September 2017
After months of the UK setting out what it wants from Brexit, the EU has now laid its cards on the table.
By Phelim O'Neill on 29 April 2017
In the news today: ramifications of Operation Weak Flesh, making your voice heard on the next CAP, 20 sheep wiped out in vicious dog attack and where does our chicken come from?
By Amy Nora Fitzgibbon on 26 March 2017
Phelim O'Neill reports on this week's events in Brussels and speaks to Macra president Seán Finan about the organisation's CAP proposals.
By Phelim O'Neill on 17 May 2017
In the news today: how to refurbish your vacuum pump, women and agriculture explode, Manorhamilton mart in court for trading without a licence and Mayo gets largest new allocation of RSS places.
By Amy Nora Fitzgibbon on 23 January 2017
Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed has said that British retailers are against an all-island label for beef, thereby ruling it out as a way to alleviate pressure on the live export trade.
By Amy Nora Fitzgibbon on 21 December 2016
The increased supply in cattle this autumn has demonstrated that beef factories are unable to handle larger numbers, writes market specialist Phelim O'Neill
By Phelim O'Neill on 26 November 2016
Some 1,800t of Irish beef was exported to the US to date this year, but no manufacturing beef was included, which accounts for 90% of US imports.
By Amy Nora Fitzgibbon on 11 November 2016
Good morning. In the news today: access for sheepmeat on agenda as part of North African trade mission, farmer speaks of accident from which he was lucky to escape alive and Trump's farming policies.
By Amy Nora Fitzgibbon on 07 November 2016
Good morning. In the news today: the Ploughing is returning to Screggan, Tullamore in 2017, 10 tips for buying cattle at the mart and what does the future hold for independent processors?
By Amy Nora Fitzgibbon on 10 October 2016
The discussion at today's Irish Farmers Journal breakfast briefing focused on the challenges facing agriculture coming from within and outside Ireland.
By Amy Nora Fitzgibbon on 21 September 2016
The IFA and ICSA have expressed concern at the prospect of a tariff-rate quota for beef as part of the Mercosur trade deal between the EU and South America.
By Amy Nora Fitzgibbon on 05 April 2016
With steady beef markets in many exporting countries, Phelim O'Neill takes a look at what's happening in the US, Brazil, Australia and Russia.
By Phelim O'Neill on 31 January 2016
In the first of a two-part series on the pig sector, Phelim O'Neill examines the challenging global pig and pigmeat market.
By Phelim O'Neill on 04 February 2016
Good morning. In the news today: reaction to the WHO report on processed meat and cancer, Minister Heather Humphreys to attend an IFA poultry meeting, and sales reports from around the country.
By Amy Nora Fitzgibbon on 27 October 2015
The US has been rather slow in coming to the table to negotiate the final terms of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), according to EU Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan.
By Amy Nora Fitzgibbon on 27 September 2015
On Thursday the EU agriculture committee rejected the Commission's draft law that would give member states the power to restrict or prohibit the use of EU-approved GM food or feed on their territory.
By Amy Nora Fitzgibbon on 05 September 2015
In this week's podcast we discuss our mart price review, hear what impact the wet weather over the weekend had on farms, discuss prospects for Irish beef in the US and talk about farming in Malawi.
By Farmers Journal on 09 September 2015
In this week's podcast, we discuss proposals to revise the beef pricing grid, hear from the NI suckler programme, interview a pillar of the farming forecast and remind you of a useful tax credit.
By Thomas Hubert on 09 September 2015
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