Rural Life
%%excerpt%% Putting Irish-grown eating apples onto supermarket shelves, reducing the need for imports, is the priority of McCanns, a family run business with Oliver McCann and his sons, Kevin and Oliver jnr at the helm.
Agri-Business
Leitrim's Organic Centre will hold its Apple Day Harvest Festival on Sunday, September 29 from 12:00p.m to 4:00pm....
The 14th Waterford Harvest Festival, which will take place from Friday to Sunday, September 8-10,...
A Co. Cork organic farmer has been awarded funding from the Heritage Council to carry out conservation work on a walled 4ac orchard.
N.Ireland
Armagh will mark the start of this year's apple growing season with a three-day festival over the May Bank Holiday weekend.
The heavy frosts forecast for this week could wreak havoc in Ireland’s apple orchards, according to Co Tipperary apple grower Cornelius Traas.
Agri Politics
The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has deregulated two apple varieties genetically modified (GM) to resist browning.
