Farming faces perfect storm amid crisis in Ukraine

Pressure to cut carbon emissions mounts as war forces fuel and fertiliser prices to soar

Distillery claims unfair tax treatment over Covid hand sanitiser production

Revenue denies it ever decided to grant tax relief for alcohol purchased to make sanitiser

Costs and pressures creating psychological strain, farming body says

‘If there was ever a year we were going to be wiped out, this is the year,’ ICSA meeting told

Food security threat to State outlined at response group meeting

Officials to draw up a plan over the weekend on how to grow more crops in coming season

Data security company Getvisibility raises €10m in funding

Cork-based start-up was founded in 2018 by Ronan Murphy and Mark Brosnan

Varadkar’s solo run appears to green-light dairy expansion – at expense of beef

Tánaiste assures dairy farmers new carbon budgets won’t put limits on milk production

IHRB stands over Stephen Mahon animal welfare investigation

Body rejects any claim of singling Mahon out over his allegations of doping in the sport

Richard O’Halloran’s return: Averting a China crisis

Diplomacy and the businessman’s own dogged negotiations brought him home, not loud calls for action

Saudi Arabia lifts Irish beef export restrictions

Previously exports had to come from cattle slaughtered while under 30 months

Global market for ‘cultivated meat’ could reach $25bn by 2030

Scientists are trying to find a commercially viable way to transform animal stem cells into marbled steak or sushi-grade salmon

Foresters accuse Hackett of rowing back on planting targets

New Department of Agriculture plan aims to tackle timber shortage

State’s plan for sustainable farming ‘lacks ambition’ on biodiversity

Oireachtas committee hears 6,000km of hedgerows being removed every year

MPs highlight concern about post-Brexit surge in north-south Irish trade

UK’s exit has increased costs, paperwork and border delays for businesses, says committee

When pets attack: ‘I never dreamed dogs could do such destruction’

Farmers are calling for more action to control dogs after several grisly mauling incidents

Just like that, Brexit is back on top of the agenda

Inside Politics: Poots upped the ante with an order to halt post-Brexit checks at NI ports

Poots’s order to halt post-Brexit checks ‘breaches international law’

Coveney joins NI politicians in condemning move by North’s Minister of Agriculture

The crisis growing in Irish forests

Bottleneck is hitting house building, slowing supply of timber, forcing many to import it

River water quality dips due to ‘set dates’ for slurry spreading

Pollution worries mount among contractors who say task should be done at safest time

Average Irish household throws out €700 worth of food every year

Growers and charities are getting perfectly edible ‘reject’ produce to those who need it

Brexit funds of €35m to be directed to coastal communities to improve piers and harbours

Establishment of the fund was one of the recommendations of a seafood sector taskforce established after Brexit

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