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Ireland’s largest university is encouraging its dairy business undergraduates to get work experience in New Zealand, and students say the event is a highlight of their four year degree course.

Irish scientists are working on breeding grasses and cereal crops able to better handle wet conditions.

An assessment tool known as the Carbon Navigator is used to assess each beef and dairy farm under Ireland's sustainability scheme Origin Green.

Origin Green, a scheme that verifies the sustainability of Ireland’s food and drink production, now has 100% of the country’s dairy farmers and 90% of beef farmers signed up to its extensive auditing.

Irish sheep and beef farmers are blaming Britain’s planned exit from the European Union (Brexit) for lower-than-normal prices for their stock.

Irish Farmers Association president Joe Healy has been in the top job only a few months.

New Zealand's Ambassador to Ireland, Sir Lockwood Smith, says NZ has the kind of innovative agritech businesses that interest farmers in Ireland.

Beef + Lamb NZ Genetics is looking at how Ireland improves herd genetics, in a bid to improve the way it delivers genetic information to NZ farmers.

The number of Irish tradies working in Christchurch, and those operating rural contractors' machinery and tractors at harvest time, show how much the Irish like New Zealand.

Origen Green, a marketing brand created by Ireland, is something New Zealand needs to copy and do better and faster.