Persistent rain risks rotting British crops and threatens potato, salad and grain supplies, farmers have warned. Providing ...

Analysis of 2024 figures by Teagasc has shown 37% of farmers growing winter wheat achieved net profit margins of more than ...

Ireland’s tillage sector may require looking beyond traditional markets and towards new uses for straw such as in construction, writes Stephen Robb.

There was strong output across both the dairy and tillage sectors last year, while beef and sheep production fell - according to a report from Teagasc on Ireland's agri-food sector.

A new Government initiative to financially back a return of more flour mills in Ireland has been announced. At present, Ireland has only one industrial‑scale flour mill, located in Portarlington, run ...

Last year was a good grass growing year with grass production increasing to an average of 13.2 tonnes dry matter per hectare in 2025 as measured by ...

While the current milk price paid to dairy farmers is around 33-34 pence per litre, in many cases down by 50 per cent from ...

In one of the largest genetic studies of its kind, they have traced the origins of the potato blight to the Andes. The ...

Our ambition is to make fertilizer-related Scope 3 reductions standard practice in global agri-food supply chains.”— ...

It was described as the “freedom to farm” allowing farmers to de-intensify or change enterprise without losing direct payment supports. It was 2005 when farmers first claimed payment in this manner.

Germany, the largest producer of spuds in the European Union, is enjoying the biggest harvest in a generation, owing to ...

It's been very, very wet. Since my last article, we have had the worst six weeks of winter weather I can remember for a long time. The first days of ...