The Latest Breaking News from Department of Agriculture

The Department of Agriculture's farm building grant scheme TAMS has been branded 'irrelevant' to farmers with farmers applying expected to work off costings that are '12 months out of date'.

A whistleblower has accused Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and former Taoiseach Enda Kenny of “political interference” to frustrate criminal investigations into farmers and pharmacists by the Department of Agriculture.

Farmers who haven’t used forestry licences they have been issued with have received a letter from the Department of Agriculture asking them to detail the reason they haven’t planted.

New details of the Department of Agriculture’s next flagship agri- environmental scheme gave been revealed.

The US Department of Agriculture has been called in to trap and relocate the feisty fowl before they begin nesting

WASHINGTON — The United States Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday it will allow the resumption of shipments of Prince Edward Island potatoes to Puerto Rico. 

The Department of Agriculture (DoA) is producing handbooks on growing cannabis as part of efforts to register wider varieties of the indigenous plant, according to the Agriculture Ministry.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines bioengineered food as food that “contains detectable genetic material that has been modified through certain lab techniques that cannot be created through conventional breeding or found in nature.”

Almost one in five farmers claiming commonage as part of their BPS application do not meet the minimum stocking density requirements — raising the issue of ‘map acres’. The information was obtained by the Farming Independent from the Department of Agriculture through the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.