By IrishFarming.ie on Thursday, January 7, 2010Filed Under: Farming News
If the name of Glanbia fails to register, its products certainly will. The mid-cap Irish food producer supplies the cream for Baileys Irish Cream, the mozzarella that tops Domino’s pizzas, and ingredients for the cheese found in McDonald’s and Burger King buns.
However, such tie-ups have done little to protect Glanbia from either severe falls in [...]
By IrishFarming.ie on Thursday, January 7, 2010Filed Under: Farming News
Attendants to this year's Irish Grassland Annual Dairy Conference will be able to hear keynote speaker, Alan Dukes outline his views for a successful Irish agricultural and dairy industry in the future.
The conference, to be held at Rochestown Park Hotel on Tuesday 12 January will deliver technical messages to commercial dairy farmers for the year [...]
By IrishFarming.ie on Thursday, January 7, 2010Filed Under: Farming News
Glanbia plc the international cheese and nutritional ingredients Group, has issued this 2009 full year pre-close trading statement. This statement has been prepared in accordance with the new segmental reporting announced at the 2009 half year results.
The Group expects to announce 2009 full year results in early March 2010 for the year ended 2 January, [...]
By IrishFarming.ie on Tuesday, January 5, 2010Filed Under: Farming News
The extremely cold, but mainly dry weather, will continue through the rest of the week and over next weekend, across the whole country. There will be further severe or very severe frosts at night, and ice on untreated surfaces; some freezing fog patches possible too. Daytime temperatures will be in low single figures at best, [...]
By IrishFarming.ie on Tuesday, January 5, 2010Filed Under: Farming News
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association (ICSA) has postponed its AGM and Annual Conference due to take place on Thursday 7th January in the Strand Hotel, Limerick. The recent unprecedented weather has left many roads impassable, and with further freezing conditions predicted over the coming days, the decision was taken to postpone the event. [...]
By IrishFarming.ie on Thursday, December 24, 2009Filed Under: Farming News
Brazil has submitted a trade specific concern to the World Trade Organisation regarding what it believes is the unfair treatment of Brazilian meat exports to the EU. Brazil recently asked the EU to simplify the current system to make it more affordable and flexible for producers. These proposed changes to the Brazilian Cattle Traceability System [...]
By IrishFarming.ie on Thursday, December 24, 2009Filed Under: Farming News
FORMER Gárda, farmer and father-of-two – there are many sides to Irish Farmers Association (IFA) President-elect John Bryan. But above all, Mr Bryan, 51, is a farmer. He started life on his family’s farm and now farms 230 acres of suckler beef at Cappagh, Inistioge in Co. Kilkenny. As a young man he gave up [...]
By IrishFarming.ie on Thursday, December 24, 2009Filed Under: Finance
ICSA rural development chairman and president elect Gabriel Gilmartin has expressed extreme frustration that REPS 4 farmers still haven't received payment. "In some cases, farmers who have not even been told whether they have been accepted into REPS 4 are now being subjected to sudden on the spot inspections. It is not right to inspect [...]
By IrishFarming.ie on Thursday, December 24, 2009Filed Under: Livestock
ICSA Connaught Ulster vice president John Barron has expressed alarm at proposed changes to the TB regime arising from the need to facilitate the slaughter of cattle that are over 12 months since their last TB test. "The new proposals to permit the slaughter of animals that are between 12-18 months since their last TB [...]
By IrishFarming.ie on Thursday, December 10, 2009Filed Under: Finance
There was a sense of relief among farm organisations yesterday in the aftermath of a draconian budget that did not hit farming as hard as recent efforts. In his post Budget press briefing, Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith was also in relatively upbeat mood. The fact that agriculture was spared harsh cuts was seen as [...]