Agriculture Taoiseach did not overrule agriculture minister on nitrates issue - Fine Gael TDFarmers protested a proposed EU reduction to nitrate limits at political think-ins last week
Supermarkets warned of new rules to prevent unfair trading practice Agriculture minister said new regulation of relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain would come into force next April, overseen by new office of food ombudsman
John Gibbons: Ireland must plan ahead now to secure full food independenceThere is little evidence of strategic thinking on how we would feed ourselves if we were largely cut off from international markets
Charlie McConalogue: ‘Appetite for change is out there among farmers’Now into his second year in the role, the Minister for Agriculture says the expansion of Ireland’s dairy herd has to stop if the farming sector is to meet its climate targets
McConalogue: national dairy herd numbers must stabiliseThe Minister for Agriculture says his department would only consider cap on dairy cattle numbers as ‘a last resort’
