The government has spent the past week producing a mountain of reports attempting to answer exactly that question, and then ...

The warning signs have been there for decades. From a high of nearly five million breeding ewes in the early 1990s, numbers have slipped steadily downwards, falling again this year to just 2.6m.

A new national initiative aimed at supporting the next generation of Irish livestock farmers has been launched by Kepak in partnership with Musgrave, with a focus on improving skills, business ...