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New shoots: McCormack Family Farms welcome first harvest of organic Irish spinach

Today, McCormack Family Farms, the award-winning producer of baby salad leaves, herbs and edible flowers has welcomed the first harvest of organic Irish spinach...
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New Environmental Report Grant

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine will pay a grant, as an interim measure, if a report from an ecologist or archaeologist...

Musgrave invests €25 million in stores as part of net zero journey

Musgrave has today announced a €25 million investment in SuperValu and Centra stores across the island of Ireland as part of a new sustainability...

Minister McConalogue opens the 11th World Potato Congress

Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue officially opened the 11th World Potato Congress today at the RDS in Dublin. Minister McConalogue...

Agritech firm pioneers new supply chain for outgrade potatoes and peeling waste

Revolutionising the potato production supply chain, root crop R&D agri-tech firm B-hive Innovations has developed Root Extracts Ltd. The venture will extract plant-based protein from outgrade...

Ministers announce €3m Investment Scheme for the Seed Potato Sector

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue T.D., today following a meeting of cabinet, announced his intention to launch a €3m scheme...

German peat proposal could “bring about the end of the Irish horticultural industry”, Senator...

Fine Gael Senator Regina Doherty has written to Seanad Leader Minister McConalogue ahead of today's meeting of the European Agriculture and Fisheries Council. The...

GE Current shares data from intra-canopy lighting study

GE Current, a Daintree company, is offering open access to the findings of its most recent research collaboration. The study, conducted by Wageningen University...
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Freshfel Europe event focusses on momentum of fresh fruit and veg sector

Freshfel Europe’s Annual Event 2022 took place yesterday in Brussels, gathering over 100 leading actors from the European and global fresh fruit and vegetable...

Next tranche of Organic Processing Investment grant scheme opens

Minister of State of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett announced today that the next tranche of the Organic...