Agri-Business
Fertiliser "availability and affordability" will be high on the agenda today at a high level EU meeting of government ministers today.
Dairy
The National Milk Agency has confirmed that its members do not receive a salary but do receive travel expenses.
Festivals of food taking place across the country are among the agri-food tourism projects set to enjoy a €300,000 funding boost.
Bluetongue
Bluetongue has been now been detected in counties Wexford, Wicklow, Laois, Louth, Monaghan, Kildare and Cork according to DAFM.
Minister Heydon will bring a memo to Cabinet tomorrow on his Fuel Subsidy Support Scheme for farmers, farm contractors and fisheries.
DAFM has confirmed that more than "19,000 samples of ruminants" have been tested for bluetongue in 2026 according to latest figures.
Grass
Fertiliser is available, "subject to local delivery constraints" but supply of urea-based products is limited, Minister Heydon has indicated.
Beef
Farmers are "frustrated" over issues that they have identified with the National Dairy Beef Weighing Scheme (NDBWS), ICMSA has warned.
Opinion
DAFM Minister, Martin Heydon, will soon have an opportunity to put the needs of Irish agriculture centre stage.
A number of farmers are still waiting on ACRES payments for 2023, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has confirmed.
Testing for the bluetongue virus should be "expanded" across the country, according to the Sinn Féin spokesperson on agriculture.
DAFM has confirmed to Agriland that the backlog of bovine tuberculosis (TB) compensation payments has been cleared.
Pig/Poultry
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine pledged in the Dáil to support the poultry sector against the heightened risk of bird flu.
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon has outlined the measures...
New biosecurity regulations which will require all flock keepers to apply specific biosecurity measures for poultry have been introduced.
DAFM has this week released figures of a county-by-county breakdown of applicants entered in the National Beef Welfare Scheme (NBWS).
DAFM is currently examining the proposed Mercosur bilateral safeguard clause "in detail" according to Minister Martin Heydon.
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has been allocated a total €2.3 billion in Budget 2026.
Agri Politics
Minister Heydon has said the EU's proposal to stop income support for farmers who have a pension are measures that he feels are very "crude".
Rural Life
There has been no sitting of Dáil Éireann since it adjourned on Thursday, July 16, and it is not set to return until Wednesday, September 17.
Minister Martin Heydon said the trade agreement trade agreement "avoids the very significant threats associated with a no-deal scenario".
Minister Martin Heydon has said that just over €87.4 million in grant aid has been issued across TAMS II and TAMS 3 up to July 17, 2025.
Minister Martin Heydon has outlined the amount of funding given to each county under the traditional farm buildings grant scheme..
