Following a year in the job, Emma Walls, chief executive of the National Dairy Council, looks back on an eventful 12 months.

Last year, dairy exports from Ireland to China amounted to €359m, while in October Minister of State at the Dept of ...

Perhaps the Irish nitrates situation has allowed the EU to show it too is concerned for the future of EU dairying, writes Stephen Cadogan ...

There are a wide range of challenges facing farming as we enter 2026, with every sector under some pressure or other. Can ...

Joe Hayden, a fourth-generation dairy farmer supplying milk for Baileys Irish Cream, uses the HerdPlus app to find perfect mates for his 230 cows. The “Tinder for cows” technology, developed by the ...

The number of calves registered in Ireland has declined by almost 55,000 head to date this year according to latest figures.

Founded in 1961 as the Irish Dairy Board, a government body tasked with exporting Ireland’s dairy produce, Ornua (meaning ‘new gold’ in Irish Gaelic) now exports to 110 markets around the globe each ...

Countries across Europe are working to fulfill their commitment to shift to a climate-neutral economy. Under the European Green Deal, the climate neutrality objective becomes a legal commitment for ...

Irish influencer Miriam Mullins has been on a very Irish road trip in the National Dairy Council’s new social series Farm to Fridge, part of the European Milk Forum campaign Yogurt, It’s Great Inside.

Ireland-based Roebuck Food Group has sold its dairy business “to an unrelated partnership engaged in the Irish dairy milking industry”. The group sold its Cantwellscourt Farm subsidiary for a fee of ...

During the year, as a result of farmers generosity we were further able to help the Waterford ladies underage development ...