The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) is calling on the Department of Agriculture to impose a housing order requiring poultry and captive birds to be kept indoors to stop the spread of bird flu. It ...

In addition to awarding the boy compensation of €3,000, the WRC also directed the company to review its health and safety ...

There is no concern about stocks of turkey for Christmas following an outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu in Co Carlow, ...

But the disease poses a real risk to the sector, so ultra-tight biosecurity is crucial, with farmers being told to check ...

The discovery of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, at a commercial turkey farm in Co Carlow is "very worrying", the Irish Farmers' Association has said.

Macra president Josephine O’Neill has warned that the potential loss of Ireland’s nitrates derogation would have “devastating ...

Macra Na Feirme says young farmers won't have a future if changes are made to the nitrate derogation scheme. The model, which ...

DAINGEAN farmer Margaret Edgill has been named one of twelve new Farming for Nature Ambassadors for 2025. The award ...

About 12,000 chickens are being culled after a suspected case of bird flu at a commercial poultry premises in County Tyrone, BBC News NI understands. Disease control measures were initiated by the ...

A proposal to allow farmers to spread slurry using a splash plate on hilly ground has been welcomed by the Irish Farmers' ...

Young farmers in Ireland "feel betrayed" and "punished" despite the progress they have achieved according to Macra president.

The Irish Farmers’ Association has welcomed proposals to remove shallow cultivation from the draft version of Ireland’s sixth Nitrates Action Plan.