Beef
By Chris McCullough A mystery surrounds the next destination for livestock ship Spiridon II...
Cattle slaughterings were down by 27.9% last month when compared with October 2024, new figures from the Central Statistics Office show.
Beef production in key producing and consuming regions is expected to contract by 0.8% in 2025...
Kanturk Mart in Co. Cork hosted its annual fatstock show and sale earlier this week. Kanturk...
Nina Carberry and Barry Cowen have tabled amendments, which are designed to strengthen the EU-Mercosur safeguard regulation
Agriland and Boehringer Ingelheim have joined forces to bring livestock farmers practical...
Podcast
Francess McDonnell and Kathleen O'Sullivan bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish...
A striking Charolais beef heifer has won the 2025 Royal Ulster Agricultural Society (RUAS) Commercial Beef Championship.
Winter feeding is now well underway on cattle farms in Ireland and farmers will be looking at their...
Martin Heydon, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, clarified the spend on TB eradication programmes over the past 15 years.
Dairy
The inquisitive nature of calves can be used to drive performance rates in the period from birth to weaning.
The 2025 Carrick Winter Fair weanling heifer sale broke several records, with a top price of...
An Irish MEP has welcomed the withdrawal of an "urgent" motion to bring forward a vote on Mercosur safeguard measures.
Australia's cattle industry in continuing to set new benchmarks, with this quarter alone seeing the "highest cattle slaughter since 1978".
Agri-Business
DAFM has confirmed to Agriland that the backlog of bovine tuberculosis (TB) compensation payments has been cleared.
Farming near Tubbercurry in Co. Sligo is Pat Carthy, a suckler-beef and sheep farmer. The farm...
Schemes
It has been described as "outrageous" that the number of eligible calves that can be paid on in the National Dairy Beef Weighing Scheme will be cut.
Herds that have signed up to the NGP in 2025 should have samples returned to the genotyping lab by Monday, December 1.
A new record was set today (Monday, November 24) at the Carrick Winter Fair when a Tropique-sired Belgian Blue heifer sold for €33,500.
The number of eligible calves that can be paid on in the National Dairy Beef Weighing Scheme will be cut be almost 20.
The four finalist school teams to progress to the final stage of the ABP Angus Youth Challenge have been revealed.
Week two of the Midland and Western Livestock Improvement Society's commercial cattle show and sale...
Cow price quotes have continued to decline at most outlets, with offers back 50c/kg in some cases since the end of October.
A series of on-farm events focused on the connection between producing healthy calves and farm profitability is set to take place.
Pat Carthy's farm is one of eight ABP Monitor Farms that are finishing cattle in a variety of systems and based around the country.
