Farming | Business Post

Beef farmers may be paid to shrink herd numbers

Sector more open to scheme than dairy producers due to profit pinch

Irishman leads the way in New Zealand’s drive to produce methane livestock vaccine

John Roche from Co Kerry is advising the government in Wellington on technologies including a possible methane vaccine for cattle and sheep

Barley buyer to deduct ‘energy surcharge’ from price paid for grain

French-owned Boortmalt, the main buyer of the malting crop produced here for the Irish drinks industry, announces the cut as farm inputs rise by 40 per cent

Five Degrees of Change: Holly Cairns

The Social Democrat TD would like to see a science-led approach to agricultural policy and more incentives for planting forests

Cairns calls for CAP subsidies to be shifted from farmers to consumers

The Social Democrats TD says the current system encourages below-cost selling and benefits supermarkets rather than farmers

Thomas Duffy: When agents of misinformation sow distrust in farming community, it reaps real danger

If we want to keep hard-pressed food producers onside in the fight to save the planet, we need to check our own facts, address legitimate concerns, and maintain balanced media coverage of the issues