Opinion
There has been, for many years, an urgent need to re-imagine what we want from our farm organisations including the IFA in this country.
Brian Costello comments on the ongoing fiasco in the IFA which he says is the only subject of discussion amongst farmers these days.
Dairy
The, by now predictable, late January advice for grassland farmers around Nitrogen has been in circulation for a couple of weeks.
Increasing numbers of dairy farmers are getting their young stock reared by another farmer under contract rearing arrangements.
The profitability or otherwise of drystock farming in Ireland has rarely been out of the news of late.
Surely it is time we imagined a 'third way' for our current and incoming dairy farmers looking at dairy expansion
High rainfall and little or no frosty drying weather over the past 8 weeks have frustrated the February grazing plans of the majority of grassland farmers.
Brian Costello discusses the importance of being appropriately prepared and setup for a compact calving season. Once calving commences be prepared
Breaking News
COMMENT: While some have already started, the majority of spring calving herds will commence calving sometime over the next three weeks.
COMMENT: On Monday we had the very positive announcement that Japan was going to recommence the import of Irish beef.
It is generally forgotten that availability of quota has not been an obstacle to dairy expansion in Connacht or much of Ulster for the past 10 years.
Rural Life
COMMENT: There are many reasons why grassland farmers should be monitoring weekly grass growth on their farms and individual paddocks.
