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Most of the Netherlands’ older farmers and market gardeners have no successor and 15,000 businesses could disappear within the next 10 years, national statistics office CBS said on Monday. In part...
Germany is calling on farmers to take further precautionary measures following a rash of bird flu cases in the country. Earlier this week a flock of 30,000 chickens was destroyed in the northern st...
Beef producers should get an extra 15c/kg in returns from the UK market due to fluctuations in currency markets, said IFA livestock chairman, Angus Woods. Mr Woods said there is a significant chang...
Ukraine has restricted imports of poultry and poultry products from certain regions of Germany, Bulgaria and Hungary due to concerns about avian flu, the state consumer protection agency said on Monda...
Beef exports to the UK worth more than €1bn a year are slumping as the unfavourable exchange rate makes it less attractive to British buyers. Yet Ireland has more beef than ever to sell, the latest...
Rancher Brad Osadczuk says having his cattle quarantined for the last two months due to a bovine tuberculosis outbreak is hurting his business and his family — and he wants the federal government to s...
A new company backed with Chinese money has received Foreign Investment Review Board approval to seal the purchase of four Kimberley cattle stations for $100 million. The aggregation of propertie...
Diverting country’s attention towards limited water resources, President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said India needed to learn a lot from Israel, particularly in the field of agriculture about optimum...
Some 270 people attended this week's snail farming conference, organised by the National Organics Training Skillsnet (NOTS) in Tullamore, Co Offaly, according to Eva Milka, one of the speakers. Sh...
Some South Dakota egg producers are finally feeling some relief a year after the bird flu resulted in the deaths of millions of birds across the Midwest. The Daily Republic reports the outbreak led...
A rise in the milk price has dairy farmers smiling at last after three tough years. Fonterra's 75 cents lift to its forecast milk price now at $6 a kilogram of milksolids has added $1.3 billion in...
They say everything is bigger in Texas, whether it is the size of their hats or even the length of the horns on their cattle. It is this larger-than-life attitude that has inspired an Australian co...
A Queensland cattle baron says the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom have boosted his confidence in the international beef market. Peter Hughes, managing director o...
Meat factory prices of €4 per kg for grass beef and €4.50 for winter beef and more live exports are needed to restore profitability on livestock farms, said IFA president Joe Healy. Mr Healy was sp...
Several countries have placed import restrictions on German poultry following outbreaks of bird flu in the country, German authorities said on Wednesday. South Africa, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong...
Feeding the world's growing population requires land, especially if crops are to be grown in an environmentally friendly manner. But space for such crops is becoming increasingly limited. "Agricult...
France on Thursday raised risks of eventual bird flu strain and imposed strict precaution measures to avoid contamination, the country's agriculture ministry said. "Since recent cases in our Europe...
A twinning project geared towards building long-term, participatory and inclusive agricultural and rural development policy-making and implementation capacity in Tunisia was launched Wednesday in Tuni...
Consolidation in the Irish beef processing industry continues with Kepak Group agreeing terms to acquire John Kelly Meats, Drumquin, Co. Clare. The planned acquisition is subject to normal due dili...
Kaikoura dairy farmer Graham Collins is a hardy bloke. In his 44 years of farming, he remembers a severe flood in 1993 and a "wind disaster" in 1975 that blew everyone's milk sheds down but his. ...
The World Bank has revealed that it has so far committed a whopping $400 million into the Nigerian agriculture and adding that it also plans to commit another $200 million in the nation’s livestock d...
With increased water scarcity and agriculture consuming 70 per cent of global freshwater resources, demand is surging for new agricultural solutions. Yara International ASA (Yara) and Pessl Instrument...
The chief of Rügenwalder Mühle warned that in 20 years time Angela Merkel’s nation will only tuck into vegetarian sausages and schnitzel, despite the pork treat being a traditional family favourite. ...
A 94-year-old man was knocked down and killed by a ram that was protecting its flock in southwest France, police and the animal's owner said yesterday. The elderly man "was charged at" by the ram w...
A group of farmers gathered at Posey farm in Town Creek on Tuesday to hear experts from the National Weather Service, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other...
The beef sector is no longer prepared to be the ‘sweetener’ for trade deals, particularly Mercosur the Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed has said. Speaking after the launch of a new report fro...
Denmark has ordered its poultry farmers to keep flocks indoors after bird flu was found in wild birds, the Nordic country's environment and food ministry said on Monday. The order will take effect ...
An elderly man in France has been killed by a rampaging sheep who was protecting his flock. The 94-year-old was ‘charged at’ by the ram before it launched a frenzied attack on him in the French far...
Cheaper imports from the South American Mercosur bloc and the recovering dairy market will push down EU beef production and prices, it states in a long-awaited impact study. Dairy and pigmeat expor...
One week after Donald Trump won the presidency, farm groups are still trying to figure out what’s in store for agriculture, including who might lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “Everybody i...
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