# agriculture - Friday 14 June, 2013
The Irish agricultural sector supports 300,000 jobs and €9 billon in exports, but the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) proposals will inflict serious damage on thousands of farmers, writes Niall Madigan.
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# agriculture - Wednesday 5 June, 2013
Hayes succeeds Shane McEntee who died last December.
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# agriculture - Tuesday 28 May, 2013
The demonstration was held against proposed reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy.
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EU agricultures ministers are meeting at Dublin Castle this morning for further discussions on CAP reforms, while members of the Irish Farmers’ Association plan to protest in the city today.
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# agriculture - Tuesday 21 May, 2013
Bad weather in 2012 affected most sectors within Ireland’s horticultural industry – and the damage was further compounded for many growers by the cold late spring this year, the Minister for Agriculture said.
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# agriculture - Monday 13 May, 2013
Our collective inability to recognise the enormity of a growing food crisis caused by climate change is to our detriment, writes Gerry Crilly.
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# agriculture - Thursday 9 May, 2013
Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney urged farmers to seek help if they cannot cope.
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# agriculture - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
We produce enough food for 10 times our population, but the horsemeat scandal shows just how inequality has forced people to low-price, low-quality food, writes Richard Manton.
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# agriculture - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
The company said the state-supported investment will create 1600 direct and indirect roles.
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# agriculture - Sunday 28 April, 2013
Farmers involved in agricultural accidents tell their stories to warn others of work hazards.
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# agriculture - Thursday 18 April, 2013
Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney said the announcement was good for the Irish food industry.
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# agriculture - Sunday 14 April, 2013
The scientists in Edinburgh use a 100-year-old scientific process to produce biobutanol and adapted it for whiskey.
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# agriculture - Friday 5 April, 2013
High to extreme risk conditions for fire will persist until the coming weekend at least, according to Met Éireann’s fire weather index.
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# agriculture - Sunday 24 March, 2013
Andrew Doyle, the chairman of the Oireachtas Agriculture Committee, has confirmed his interest in filling the vacancy at the Department of Agriculture which arose following the death of Shane McEntee last year.
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# agriculture - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
Henry Burns said the deal with hit the most productive farmers the hardest.
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European agriculture ministers accepted the package tabled by Ireland’s Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney late last night.
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# agriculture - Friday 15 March, 2013
Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney says the horsemeat saga risks damaging Ireland’s food sector – but has it changed the amount of beef that you eat?
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# agriculture - Sunday 10 March, 2013
Good morning. Here are the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
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# agriculture - Friday 1 March, 2013
Milk intake by creameries and pasteurisers in January was well down on 2012 – thanks to falling prices and rising costs.
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# agriculture - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
We’re getting off lightly, though – Northern Ireland alone is being asked to return €17.7 million.
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# agriculture - Sunday 17 February, 2013
A survey in Britain has found that a significant number of people have stopped eating the meals as a result of the scandal. Have you?
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# agriculture - Thursday 14 February, 2013
Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney described the complex supply chain that led to one case of horsemeat ending up in frozen beef products in an interview this morning.
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# agriculture - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
Agriculture Minister, including Simon Coveney, meet today as officials in the UK last night raided two firms alleged to be connected to the mislabelling of meat products.
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# agriculture - Tuesday 12 February, 2013
EU member states will discuss the issue at a meeting chaired by Ireland’s Agriculture Minister.
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# agriculture - Monday 11 February, 2013
The Minister also announced that the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and the UK’s Food Standards Agency will work closely together on the horsemeat issue.
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Attention is now turning to the complex nature of supply chains in the food industry in Europe as a Romanian abattoir is identified as one possible source of the contamination of frozen beef products.
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# agriculture - Sunday 10 February, 2013
The head of the British parliament’s food affairs scrutiny panel has called for a ban on importing meat from EU countries until the horsemeat scandal is resolved.
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# agriculture - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
The President will meet with officials in Rome as well as visiting some historic sites with Irish connections.
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# agriculture - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
The horse meat controversy rumbles on but has it impacted on your confidence in Irish food production?
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# agriculture - Monday 28 January, 2013
The Agriculture Minister is taking part in the Agriculture and Fisheries
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# agriculture - Wednesday 16 January, 2013
Addressing the associations AGM, Bryan said farmers were angry by budget cuts announced by the minister.
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The President also said that women’s rights in agriculture in developing countries needs to be strengthened and recognised.
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# agriculture - Monday 14 January, 2013
The Minister for Agriculture said that the scheme is “vital to improving growers’ competitiveness”.
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Mechanical Engineers Institute explains wastage occurs both at farmer-producer end of food chain and consumer level.
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# agriculture - Friday 4 January, 2013
Last summer the UAE and the Irish government also reached agreements on beef and poultry meat exports from Ireland.
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The animals were killed by a number of dogs last Saturday in a field in Castlerea, Co Roscommon.
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# agriculture - Monday 31 December, 2012
All new calves born from tomorrow will be required to undergo testing for the dangerous Bovine Viral Diarrhoea virus.
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# agriculture - Friday 21 December, 2012
Tributes have been paid to the late Fine Gael TD, who died at his home in Co Meath aged 56.
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# agriculture - Monday 26 November, 2012
The Minister said this publicly funded research would ultimately make a positive contribution to the government’s Action Plan for Jobs.
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# agriculture - Wednesday 7 November, 2012
Andrew Doyle TD welcomes the chance to discuss the Bill – saying that animal health, animal welfare and farm profitability are interlinked and “of equal importance”.
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