IFA: Dangers of Mandelson's WTO Deal Accepted
IRELAND - Addressing the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture on the morning of the 3rd of July, IFA Deputy President Derek Deane outlined the 21st of July as D-Day for Irish farming and the food industry.

IFA Hails Sarkozy Intervention Against Mandelson
IRELAND - IFA Deputy President Derek Deane said July 21st in Geneva was D-day for Irish farming and the food industry.

Nutrigenomics Centre Opens Doors
IRELAND – The global animal health company Alltech cut the ribbon on its Centre for Animal Nutrigenomics and Applied Animal Nutrition this week. They are calling the facility the first of its kind in the world, as it is dedicated to the studying the effect...

Shoppersface 20pc Chicken Price Rise
IRELAND - The cost of chicken meat is set to soar by up to 20pc over the coming weeks.

Ireland on the Lookout for Bird Flu
IRELAND - The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food's National Disease Control Centre (NDCC) Management Committee met this afternoon to discuss the confirmation of the presence of high pathogenic H5N1 avian 'flu in three dead wild mute swans in...

Insist on Proof for Organic Turkeys
IRELAND - Mr Trevor Sargent TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, today advised consumers buying organic turkeys for Christmas to insist on proof that they are paying for the real thing.

Mislabelled Meat Calls for full Investigation
IRELAND - Irish Farmers' Association (IFA) National Sheep Committee Chairman Henry Burns this week called on the Minister for Agriculture Mary Coughlan to undertake a full investigation into mislabelling of meat in some Eurospar supermarket outlets, including...

Christmas Turkeys to Cost 25pc More
IRELAND - The sharp lift in food prices this year will be carried through to the Christmas table, as poultry producers insist that turkeys for the festive season will be far dearer.

Investigation Into Mink's Impact On Poultry
IRELAND - A researcher at NUI Galway's Department of Zoology is assessing the economic impact of the American mink population on Ireland's fish and open-air poultry farmers.

IFA Warns Us Not To Exaggerate Food Commodity Prices
IRELAND - IFA President Padraig Walshe said that some food commodity prices have risen substantially in recent months, and while this will have some impact on food prices and general inflation in Ireland, the impact should not be exaggerated.

Retailers Flock To Promote Quality-Assured Chicken
IRELAND - About 400 retail outlets are taking part in a nationwide campaign to encourage consumers to look for the Bord Bia quality mark when buying chicken.

Probe Over 30 Sick With Salmonella
IRELAND - Public health officers are investigating a severe outbreak of salmonella after 30 people were diagnosed with the bug in a four-week period.

Wendy's Pledges Support Of Humane Slaughter
DUBLIN - Wendy's International Inc., has pledged to give preferential buying support to its pork and chicken suppliers who improve humane animal welfare systems.The policy follows a switch made by Burger King this spring.

Wendy's aims to improve animal welfare
DUBLIN - Wendy’s International, Inc. has strengthened its animal welfare guidelines by giving preferential buying to its pork and chicken suppliers who improve systems for humane animal welfare.

Ireland's egg industry declared Salmonella free
IRELAND - A regulatory effort to reduce Salmonella contamination throughout Ireland's food chain is beginning to pay off in the egg sector.

Consumer confidence in poultry meat remains high
IRELAND - Consumer confidence in poultry meat remains high in this country.

Poultry price hike despite flu outbreak
IRELAND - The price of poultry products is set to rise by 15 per cent in the coming weeks, according to the Irish Poultry Processors Association (IPPA).

Global Feed Company Announces 20% Increase in Revenues
IRELAND - Global animal health company Alltech announced its end-of-year results for 2006. Revenue for the year-end was $303 million, up 20% from 2005.

Irish Shoppers face chicken, drinks rises
IRELAND - There have been warnings from two separate industry groups that shoppers could face more price increases.

Safefood warning not to wash Christmas poultry
IRELAND - As part of its Christmas campaign, safefood issued food safety advice urging consumers NOT to wash their Christmas bird before placing it in the oven.

Coughlan Welcomes Generous Package of Measures for Farmers in Budget 2007
IRELAND - The Minister for Agriculture and Food, Mary Coughlan T.D., today welcomed the provisions in Budget 2007.

Irish group will look at help for poultry industry
IRELAND - An expert group is to be established in Ireland to look at the status of the poultry industry and the factors affecting it, including cheap imports.

Expert group to review ‘challenged’ poultry industry
IRELAND - An expert group is being brought together by the Government to guide the poultry industry through what Junior Agriculture Minister Brendan Smith described yesterday as a “particularly difficult juncture”.

Group to study Irish poultry industry
IRELAND - A group is to be set up to examine the issues facing the Irish poultry industry.

Irish Farmers spending 99% of time to earn 6% of income
IRELAND - The Teagasc farm income survey, which has shown that farmers are spending 99% of their time earning one twentieth on their income, highlights the Government’s failure to improve returns from our prime food produce, according to Fine Gael Agriculture...