Spending included €1.3m on a study that looked at Ireland’s dog population, €50,000 for a review of ‘Natterjack Toad Monitoring and Farm Planning’. and more than €350,000 examining Ireland’s social ...

DUP Agriculture spokesperson Carla Lockhart MP, has described the Ulster Farmers’ Union’s vote of no confidence in DAERA as a ...

"Farming can be a dangerous profession and when accidents happen it’s often a matter of life and death in these isolated locations" ...

The drive to reduce the levels of herbicide usage within production agriculture continues to gather momentum, writes Richard Halleron.

The Irish Commercial Fishing Industry employs around 11,000 people in fishing, processing and ancillary services such as sales and marketing. The industry is worth about €1.22 billion annually to the ...

The median price for an acre of agricultural land rose by over 10pc last year, to €9,988. Dublin and the south-east were the most expensive regions to buy, according to the Central Statistics Office, ...

Carbon farming recognises the capacity of farmers through appropriate land-based activities to remove carbon from the atmosphere or reduce GHG emissions from the soil.

Bord Bia has hosted its first major event in China under a new campaign co-funded by the European Union to promote Irish ...

Farmers for Action (FFA) is calling on Stormont agriculture minister, Andrew Muir MLA, to resign with immediate effect.

Last week members of Westmeath County Council considered a range of proposals to vary the Westmeath County Development Plan ...

NI farmers have delivered a major blow to Stormont’s agriculture department after the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) passed a ...

The UFU say the motion was first suggested in early summer, following the release of the Nutrients Action Programme ...