Experts warn of long-term shifts in the conditions that have made Ireland outperform in the global food chain. Can the industry adapt?
A product used to artificially inseminate sows is at the centre of a swathe of newly filed High Court cases against an Irish firm and a Dutch supplier.
The Climate Action Plan 2024 features feed additives for cows, the electrification of public transport lines and an offshore innovation park – as well as a large black hole on land use policy.
When he shook hands with Richard Thomson-Moore, bloodstock tycoon John Magnier thought he had a deal to acquire Barne Estate. Thomson-Moore has a different view, and the dispute is heading to the High Court.
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.
The Co Meath land acquired by the Government to establish Ireland’s new national park was collateral for debt owed by the Belfast-based livestock nutrition group. The deal is part of a wider financial restructuring plan.
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.
Farmers and politicians are flocking to this week’s Ploughing in an atmosphere of distrust after the nitrates derogation was repealed. The missed opportunity to turn excess farm waste into biogas illustrates poor joined-up thinking in national policy.
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.
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