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My Farming Week: Glenn Forde, Ballinadee, Co Cork
James Hanly
Carbery Milk Quality and Sustainability Award winning dairy farmer from Cork, Glenn Forde is on this week’s edition of My Farming Week.
My Farming Week: Glenn Forde, Ballinadee, Co Cork
Lakeland Dairies urges election candidates to back dairy
19 November 2024 News
Lakeland Dairies urges election candidates to back dairy
The co-op, which has 3,200 farm families in 17 counties, has written to candidates in each of its constituencies with a reminder of the importance of the dairy sector in the nation's economy.
Dairy prices continue to rise at Global Dairy Trade
19 November 2024 News
Dairy prices continue to rise at Global Dairy Trade
However, the index rise marks the second successive increase after there was a 4.8% increase on 5 November.
Bord Bia awarded €3.2m for European dairy campaign
The ‘European dairy - where nature meets science’ campaign, which will commence in June 2025, aims to position the EU as a leader in the supply of value-add dairy ingredients.
19 November 2024 News
Increased liver fluke risk in north and west, Department warns
The Department, in collaboration with Met Éireann, UCD, Teagasc and Animal Health Ireland, has advised farmers of the predicted risk of disease caused by liver fluke infection in livestock.
19 November 2024 News
Tirlán and Carbery raise October milk prices
The price rises follow on from similar measures take by Dairygold, Kerry Dairy Ireland and Lakeland Dairies Ireland in recent weeks.
19 November 2024 News
Teagasc conference to address future challenges for Irish dairy farmers
'Robust dairying for future challenges’ is the theme of Teagasc's dairy conference this year.
18 November 2024 News
Increase for milk price at Dairygold
Dairygold has become the latest co-op to increase its price for milk supplied last month after rises at Lakeland Dairies and Kerry Dairy Ireland.
15 November 2024 News
Kerry Dairy sets October milk price
'Butter and cheese returns continue to underpin milk pricing, as an upward trend in milk output is currently being offset by robust demand,' a spokesperson said.
15 November 2024 News
Tensions flare between outgoing ag ministers over derogation
Martin Heydon and Pippa Hackett exchanged heated words over the role EU politics will play in the derogation debate.
14 November 2024 News
Department raises risk-based cattle trading to curb TB
The Department has acknowledged that risk-based cattle trading controls would devalue impacted cattle.
13 November 2024 News
‘We stuck to our guns’ on brucellosis - Department
The experience of eradicating brucellosis shows that animal diseases can be eradicated, even in the face of farm organisation opposition to new measures, a Department official said.
13 November 2024 News