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€35,000 seed capital to help Kilkenny food start-ups grow

By Kilkenny Now 18th November 2020 0

Kilkenny based food and drink start-ups are being invited to apply for grants of up to €35,000. Bord Bia, Enterprise Ireland and Teagasc this week launched  Food Works 2021, a government-supported programme that provides a launchpad for scalable and export driven Irish food and drink businesses to grow. They are encouraging Kilkenny-based Irish food and […]

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Kilkenny to host major farming conference

By Kilkenny Now 21st January 2020 0

Teagasc’s National Tillage Conference will take place in Kilkenny this month. ‘Minimizing risk, promoting sustainability’ is the theme of the conference which will take place on Wednesday, January 29 at the Lyrath Convention Centre. Teagasc said the conference is “focussed on delivering answers to many of the decisions stakeholders need to make in advance

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Cheque this out: Kilkenny farmer wins two prestigious national awards

By Kilkenny Now 22nd December 2019 0

A Kilkenny man has been named the Grassland Farmer of the Year for 2019. Bryan Daniels from Kilmoganny picked up the award from Agriculture Minister Michael Creed at an awards ceremony over the weekend. Bryan picked up a winner’s cheque for €6,000 and was also named Sustainable Farmer of the Year. Teagasc Chairman Liam Herlihy […]

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Ireland’s leading rural sustainability and business event comes to Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 23rd October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY AN EXHIBITION highlighting the opportunities available from rural sustainability is being held in Kilkenny this week. The Energy and Rural Business Show Ireland (ERBI) is an event for the agricultural and rural communities of Ireland, providing in depth information and guidance on renewable energy generation and use, environmental best practice and other

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National programme aimed at protecting hedgerow wildlife launched in Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 21st October 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A NEW initiative aimed at protecting the habitats of insects, birds and animals who live in hedgerows has been launched in Kilkenny. Teagasc Hedgerow Week 2019  was officially launched at Kildalton Agriculture and Horticulture College in Piltown yesterday by Andrew Doyle TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and […]

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Kilkenny family quit Greenfield Farm project to return to ‘day-to-day’ farming

By Kilkenny Now 9th May 2019 0

GLANBIA has confirmed the owners of Greenfield Farm project have decided to withdraw from the county Kilkenny project. In a statement, the company said it “fully respects” the decision of the Phelan family to return to day-to-day farming on the land near Clara. The Board of Glanbia Ireland said it believed the Greenfield Farm project […]

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Young Kilkenny farmer is named Teagasc Student of the Year

By Kilkenny Now 30th March 2019 0

A YOUNG farmer from Urlingford has been named as the Teagasc/FBD Insurance Student of the Year for 2018. Paul Bowden completed the Level 6 Advanced Certificate in Agricultural (Dairy Herd Management) with Distinction at Teagasc Kildalton Agricultural College. Presenting the award, Minister Michael Creed said: “The panel of judges have informed methat the standard was […]

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Beef farmers’ confidence ‘at all time low’, warns Kilkenny councillor

By Kilkenny Now 9th March 2019 0

BEEF farming has never faced such an uncertain future and farmers’ confidence is at an “all time low”, a Kilkenny councillor and General Election candidate said today. Councillor Patrick O’Neill (pictured below) spoke out in the wake of a recent Teagasc report which reveals beef farmers are earning an annual income of just €12,000, far […]