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3 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Charles O'Donnell
A paper published by an EU body of agri-food research organisations – including Teagasc – has said that livestock systems are essential to meeting climate and biodiversity targets, when they are designed with “circularity and multifunctionality in mind”.
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3 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Charles O'Donnell
Despite high levels of uncertainty facing farming, there are “promising political and market developments” that could support the sector in the year ahead.
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4 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Charles O'Donnell
The issuing of delayed balancing payments for 2023 and 2024 under the Agri Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) “could be too little, too late” for future agri-environment schemes, one farm organisation has warned.
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4 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Charles O'Donnell
An Irish MEP is calling on the European Commission to develop a “crisis preparedness plan” to protect the agricultural sector from ongoing “shocks” caused by the trade policy of US president Donald Trump. Midlands–North-West MEP Maria Walsh, who is a member of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee, called on the commission to prepare such a pan for the agriculture sector as part of a debate on EU and US trade.
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4 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Charles O'Donnell
The Global Dairy Trade (GDT) index has seen a second successive decrease in the index figure following the latest trading event today (Tuesday, June 3). The index decreased by 1.6% today, for an average price of €3,794 per metric tonne (mt). The index figure is now at 1,311. Of the 12 most recent GDT auction events back to December 17 (including today’s event), the index has decreased six times, increased five times, and gone unchanged on one occasion.
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4 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Charles O'Donnell
Farmers selling cattle will face fines of up to €300,000, or prison time of up to two years, for failing to disclose that an animal is within a withdrawal period after being administered with veterinary medicine. A new law is being prepared to make it an offence for sellers to fail to tell buyers that an animal is still within the withdrawal period. The law is set to be published this year, according to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.
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4 days ago | 
agriland.co.uk | Charles O'Donnell
Rural communities in Ukraine “need immediate support” to produce food amid the ongoing war with Russia, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN). With the war ongoing, many Ukrainian farmers and rural farming families face limited access to their land due to mines and lack the financial resources to purchase needed agricultural inputs, the FAO said.
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4 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Charles O'Donnell
Rural communities in Ukraine “need immediate support” to produce food amid the ongoing war with Russia, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN). With the war ongoing, many Ukrainian farmers and rural farming families face limited access to their land due to mines and lack the financial resources to purchase needed agricultural inputs, the FAO said.
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5 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Charles O'Donnell
Local community groups are now able to apply for funding and mentoring under a programme to “protect and celebrate” local heritage, including natural heritage. The Heritage Keepers programme is now open to applications for its fifth year. The programme is open to community groups and primary schools across Ireland in both urban and rural locations. Organisers of the initiative said that this year’s programme will have an increased number of places for both community groups and schools.
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5 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Charles O'Donnell
The weather this week will be largely unsettled, with rain or showers each day of the week and cooler than average temperatures for June, according to Met Éireann. Today (Tuesday, June 3) will be breezy with a mix of sunshine and scattered showers. Highest temperatures will be 12° to 16°, coolest in the west and northwest, with moderate to fresh and gusty southwest to west winds. Scattered showers will continue tonight, most frequent in Ulster and north Connacht.
