Coveney

Varadkar: Ireland must keep North in single market after Brexit

Agri Politics

9 years ago

Varadkar: Ireland must keep North in single market after Brexit

Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney have two different ideas about how to help Northern Ireland through the shock of Brexit

EU must pull 'handbrake' on plunging milk price

Agri-Business

10 years ago

EU must pull 'handbrake' on plunging milk price

The new chair of ICMSA Dairy Committee has called for a stabilizing mechanism to be introduced for the post-quota EU milk market

Coveney wants immediate clarification on how EU proposals will help Irish farmers

Agri Politics

11 years ago

Coveney wants immediate clarification on how EU proposals will help Irish farmers

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Simon Coveney, has called for immediate clarification on how a €500 million aid package for European farmers will be distributed between Member States.

Beef

11 years ago

Coveney expected to ‘crack the whip’ at next Beef Roundtable meeting

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney may well push to have a number of key recommendations agreed at the next meeting of the Beef Roundtable

O Cuiv calls on EU to introduce fair price protection for farmers

Agri-Business

11 years ago

O Cuiv calls on EU to introduce fair price protection for farmers

Agriculture minister Simon Coveney dropped the ball in failing to secure a fair price deal for farmers, according to Eamon O Cuiv.

Agri-Business

11 years ago

Macra calls on Coveney to provide more support for young farmers

Macra na Feírme wants Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney to introduce the proposed collaborative farming scheme immediately

Agri-Business

11 years ago

Fianna Fail to launch new agriculture policy document

Fianna Fail will launch its new farming policy document at this year’s Ploughing Match, according to the party’s agriculture spokesman Eamon O Cuiv.

Agri-Business

11 years ago

Feed industry furious at BSE slur

Irish feed compounders are deeply upset at Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney’s inference that contaminated feed may be implicated in the current BSE scare

Agri-Business

11 years ago

Coveney admits that BSE case will almost certainly be confirmed next week

The suspected case of BSE in a Rotbunt dairy cow will, almost certainly, be declared positive next week, according to Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney

Beef

11 years ago

ICSA to meet ICBF and Department on beef genomics scheme

ICSA will meet representatives from ICBF and the Department of Agriculture to discuss the out workings of the Beef Data and Genomics Programme

Opinion

11 years ago

Coveney must act now to support dairy sector

Lakeland Dairies’ CEO Michael Hanley is, quite rightly, calling for dairy intervention prices to be increased with immediate effect.

Agri-Business

11 years ago

Coveney sets out his stall for the remainder of his term

The Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney set out his stall for the rest of his term in recent days.

Agri Politics

11 years ago

Rural Development Plan may not be approved till March – Coveney

Ireland’s Rural Development Programme (RDP) may not be approved until March according to the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney.

Environment

11 years ago

Coveney called on to open GLAS early, ahead of European agreement

Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney is being called on to open the new Green Low Carbon Agrienvironmental Scheme (GLAS) ahead of formal agreement at European level of Ireland's Rural Development plans.