Beef
A Co. Cork farmer has converted 3 acres of her beef farm into a driving academy which includes roundabouts and traffic...
Rural Life
The highlight for many, at this year’s Carlow Garden Festival is Monty Don, a gardening guru who is renowned for...
Anyone planning on doing some gardening at the weekend or indeed over the next couple of weeks here are 10 jobs to...
Environment
The timing of thinning forestry for the first time depends on a number of factors, according to Padraig Egan, General Manager...
Dairy
Dutch dairy farmers were not able to cover their cost of milk production last year, according to figures from the...
This week will be cool for July and unsettled, with some drier days interspersed with wetter ones, according to Met...
Moynalty Macra from Co. Meath and Knockbride Macra from Co. Cavan have qualified for the FBD Farmskills national final in...
An expected 2,000 new groves of native trees are to be established under the new Green Low Carbon Agri-Environment Scheme (GLAS), according...
Sheep
One of the main causes of lameness in sheep is contagious ovine digital dermatitis (CODD), which is spread by sheep-to-sheep...
Agri-Business
Irish beef exports to the Netherlands were up 6% to 41,000t and worth over €165m in value in 2014, according...
Recent sheep trails have shown that routine foot trimming should be avoided, as it can lead to higher cases of...
The most important step to tackling lameness in a sheep flock is to establish how much lameness is there and...
Macra na Ferime has launched the Young Farmer Skillnet, which is an informal training programme available to young farmers. It...
Tillage
Tillage farmers’ margins increase with hybrids was the take home message from Seedtech’s Commercial Director Aidan Moore at this year’s...
A cash prize of €10,000 is up for grabs at the 2015 Diageo Baileys Irish Champion Cow Competition which is now...
A total of over 2,500 acres of farm land has come on the market in the UK for a total of...
The humid weather over the last week has been ideal for potato blight to establish in the crop, with Met...
Agri Politics
Candian farmers have put up a reward of $500,000 for information on suspects sabotaging their potato crop with pins and...
