DAIRY farmers challenged by the twice-daily drudgery of milking seven days a week and a labour shortage will have the chance next month to examine in...
WESTERN dairy farmers need to get a milk price that reflects the Ornua Purchase Price Index, according to Galway IFA Dairy Representative Noel Murphy. He told...
ONE of the biggest challenges facing rural youth in the West of Ireland is the inadequacy of the public transport system, according to new research published...
AGRICULTURE Minister, Michael Creed, has said that he wants to hear from more farmers in the ongoing public consultation process on the issue of climate change...
By Ivan Kelly, Teagasc WE live in a time of great change for Irish, and, indeed, world agriculture. You are all familiar with the forces driving...
LIVESTOCK farmers along the Western Seaboard counties have been advised this week of an increased livestock threat following an extremely wet late Summer and early Autumn...
ECONOMIC concerns have been identified in Teagasc research as one of the main stumbling blocks in the transfer of the family farm from one generation to...
A WEST of Ireland TD has hit out at what he described as RTE’s unfair and unbalanced coverage of climate change issues in relation to rural...
