Beef
A beef enterprise in Cork decided diversifying was needed to sustain the farm and saw an opportunity to open a driving academy.
Rural Life
The highlight for many, at this year's Carlow Garden Festival is Monty Don, a gardening guru who is renowned for his BBC gardening show 'Gardeners World' and among many other broadcasting shows.
Anyone planning on doing some gardening at the weekend or indeed over the next couple of weeks here are 10 jobs to keep you busy.
Environment
Anyone who planted forests in the last 17-20 years needs to check it now and see if it's ready for thinning, according to Maurice Ryan, Timber and Marketing Manager with Greenbelt
Dairy
Dutch dairy farmers were not able to cover their cost of milk production last year, according to figures from the Dutch Dairymen Board.
This week will be cool for July and unsettled with some drier days interspersed with wetter ones, according to Met Eireann
The second of the three semi finals for Macra’s FBD Farmskills Competition took place on July 4th at the Bailieboro Show, the organisation says.
An expected 2,000 new groves of native trees are to be established under the new Green Low Carbon Agri-Environment Scheme (GLAS)
Sheep
One of the main causes of lameness in sheep is contagious ovine digital dermatitis.
Agri-Business
Irish beef was up 6% to 41,000t and is worth over €165m in the Dutch market in 2014 according to Bord Bia.
Video on how to prevent lameness in sheep. Recent sheep trails have shown that routine foot trimming can lead to higher cases of lameness in the flock.
How to spot and treat scald and footrot in sheep video
Aiden Deasy reports on the post quota era and maximising of milk output, using two of Lely's Astronaut A4's for his herd of 144 cows.
Macra na Ferime has launched the Young Farmer Skillnet, which is an informal training programme available to young farmers.
Tillage
Farmers' margins increase with hybrids was the take home messages from Seedtech's Commercial Director Aidan Moore at its open day.
A cash prize of €10,000 is up for grabs for dairy breeders at the 2015 Diageo Baileys Irish Champion Cow Competition which is now open for entries.
A total of over 2,500 acres of farm land has come on the market in the UK in three separate farms, with a total value of €24m, according to Farmers Weekly.
The humid weather over the last week is the ideal conditions for potato blight to establish.
Agri Politics
Potato farmers in a rural corner of Canada have come under attack of a different sort; someone's been putting pins and nails in their potatoes.
Google may know pretty much everything, but it's knowledge of field boundaries, hedgerows and forests isn't good enough for the Department of Agriculture.
This weekend, the weather will take a turn for the worst, with Sunday to be wet and cold, according to Met Eireann.
Teagasc has produced two handy guides to measuring dry matter (DM) for cattle and sheep farmers.
