As the war in the Middle East continues to disrupt global fuel and fertiliser supply chains, farmers across Ireland are feeling the ripple effects.

The Ulster Farmers' Union in Ireland has launched a new on-farm milk vending machine map as part of its Februdairy campaign, ...

Irish farmers applied for the Irish government's organic farming scheme in record numbers between October and December last year. 2,100 farmers applied for the government's Organic Farming Scheme last ...

In the wake of decisions made at the recent COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, it is surely only a matter of time before some cattle farms in Ireland go out of business. The commitment that methane ...

Ireland is finalizing its climate protection targets to the year 2040. There is no way to meet its EU and international ...

B orn in London to Irish parents in 1972, Clune’s family moved back to the Emerald Isle when he was just a year old to open a sheep and barley farm in the rural Irish county of Wicklow. At 17, he left ...

As a young civil servant in the Department of Finance’s economics team in the 1970s and early 1980s, I learned on the job about a wide range of policy challenges. A significant amount of my time was ...

Fianna Fáil MEP Barry Cowen has said it is “beyond time” for a resolution to protests calling for the resignation of Larry Murrin as chairman of Bord Bia. The former minister for agriculture said a ...