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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In an initial response to the Budget, IFA President Padraig Walshe stated that, at a time when farm income has fallen by 30%, the introduction of a Carbon Tax and the lack of clarity on adequate funding for a new REPS scheme must be addressed if farm incomes are not to be hit further in [...]
The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Brendan Smith TD, today announced that he has approved the allocation of milk quota to a major research project aimed at the development of profitable, expanding dairy farms as the sector moves towards quota abolition. The project is being undertaken by Teagasc's Moorepark Dairy Production Research Centre [...]
Total cereal production fell by a staggering 520,000t this year, Teagasc's crop report has confirmed. Overall production was 1.86m tonnes this year, compared to 2.38m tonnes for 2008 — a fall of 22pc. With the exception of winter barley, yields were below average for all main crops during this year's harvest. Teagasc tillage specialist Jim [...]
