Full coverage: Agribusiness

From dairy exports-driven agriculture to the reliance on corporation tax paid by multinationals, the wind-down of the Askeaton infant formula plant exposes multiple risks for Ireland on a single site.

Five years after breeding problems emerged on an Irish pig farm, a dispute illustrating the high-tech international supply chain behind livestock genetics is going legal.

Kilkenny animal feed manufacturer Connolly's Red Mills is one of Ireland’s oldest family businesses. For 30 years, Michael Connolly has travelled the world looking for new export markets. Now based in Dubai, he reflects upon the lessons he learned along the way.

As EU ministers including Ireland’s adopted the proposed Nature Restoration Law last week, speakers at Alltech’s Dublin conference promoted technology instead of restrictions to achieve environmental goals in agriculture. This debate is far from over.

By selling the research farm touted as Ireland’s answer to climate change, the livestock nutrition and agricultural technology group is closing a symbolic chapter. But the true meaning of the decision emerges from Devenish’s debt history.

Bio-Marine Ingredients Ireland wants to replicate the dairy industry's success in turning milk into high-value ingredients – but with fish. A failed funding round last year led to a restructuring of the business, which its CEO says is now seeking to raise €3m.

Elivia, the billion-euro meat processor part-owned by the Browne and Queally families, is roaring ahead. The Irish partners are giving themselves time to decide on a full takeover.

Jim Bergin is CEO of Tirlán co-op, which has now separated its Irish business from Glanbia. In his first interview at Tirlán’s new head office, he outlines how the company intends to make use of its new-found independence.

To complete its conversion from feed manufacturer to green ag-tech solutions provider, Owen Brennan’s group needs more finance – and to attract new investors, it has promised to favour them in a future sale of the business. Will they match the valuation put on the group in recent internal transactions?

Half-year results from the global nutrition group reveal the effect of its final divestment from domestic milk processing on its bottom line, share buybacks and the resulting value returned through its stock.