Over 220 acres of grass cuttings from the airfield at Dublin Airport is being made available to farmers according to the Dublin Airport Authority.

Farm leaders have called for a “major national effort” to help farmers affected by fodder shortages and ensure that they have enough hay and si(...)

What an eventful half-year it has been for farming. For a sector that was considered a sunset industry in the boom years, it has seldom been ou(...)

 Minister for Agriculture, Marine and Food	Simon Coveney said his department had experienced an extremely busy period as a result of the horse meat crisis, talks on the Common Agricultural Policy and the recent fodder shortage. Photograph: Eric Luke

More than €700,000 has been paid out in overtime to ministerial staff such as personal assistants and secretaries(...)

Spain’s Agriculture Minister Miguel Arias Canete (left) talks Simon Coveney at the start of an EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council at the EU Council in Brussels on Monday. Photograph: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP

Anything good in Die Welt this week? Simon Coveney made the daily briefing notes column on Thursday thanks to the hours he put in during (...)

Suzanne Lynch, European Correspondent, in Brussels Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney has said an agreement with other fisheries mini(...)

New Macra na Feírme president Kieran O’Dowd told the rural youth organisation’s AGM in Cork that 7 per cent of farmers in Germany were over 65 while in France, 13 per cent were

There are more farmers over the age of 80 than under 35, yet little has been done to address this “unbelievable” scenario, new Macra na Feírme (...)

Beef cattle in Kilkenny. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times

The first consignments of hay sourced in France in a bid to alleviate the current fodder crisis will be distributed to farmers over the weekend(...)


Minister for Agriculture, Marine and Food
Simon Coveney

The Department of Agriculture is discussing tighter equine controls with passport-issuing agencies, Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney told(...)

The future of State forestry service Coillte will be decided within the next fortnight, the Dáil has been told. Minister for Agric(...)

A stroll in the woods. Proposal to sell harvesting rights has not  been rationally assessed in relation to its impact on the public good, say critics. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times

The sale of the harvesting rights of State forestry company Coillte could actually cost the State more money in the long term,(...)

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