Beef
Housing: Ventilation is the key to minimise pneumonia this winter
We’re heading into that time of the year again, when farmers’ attentions turn to preventing disease in animal housing over...
Beef
We’re heading into that time of the year again, when farmers’ attentions turn to preventing disease in animal housing over...
Beef
Good-quality continental cattle – with age on their side – met with firm demand at Mountrath Mart on Wednesday last....
Beef
A number of cattle are reported to have died from what is suspected to be botulism in Co. Wexford, according...
Beef
The first 25t container of Irish beef has recently reached Chinese shores, Bord Bia has confirmed. The product, from ABP,...
Beef
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) recently released data outlining the top 20 most popular beef AI sires in suckler...
Beef
With more weanlings coming on stream, prices were reported to be on the rise in recent days. However, quality is...
Beef
Drystock farmers who decide to “cash in” on their fodder supplies this winter and destock may find it difficult to...
Beef
Beef processors are keeping the pressure on finishers, while the weekly kill continues to increase. During the week ending September...
Beef
Tipperary farmers, Jim and Audrey Parkinson, will host the next in the series of Bord Bia and Teagasc September farm...
Agri-Business
Eurofins Agro has just announced it is entering the Irish market in providing feed and forage analysis to farmers. Eurofins...
Beef
Calls have been made for the allocation of €120 million in the upcoming budget to develop a new sustainable suckler...
Beef
Despite significant progress in recent years, greater efforts will be required to eradicate bovine TB by 2030, according to the...
Grass
It is well documented that every blade of grass that an animal eats represents a saving on winter feed costs...
Beef
If there’s one thing that’s certain is that farmers are operating with an air of caution around cattle marts throughout...
Beef
Last Tuesday (September 4), Balla Mart held its first weanling show and sale. A “roaring trade” was reported and this...
Agri Politics
Market symptoms of the prolonged EU-wide drought may already be appearing, the EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Phil Hogan,...
Beef
Two Hereford “prodigies”, Shiloh-Farm Dynamite and Moyclare Quinlan, have continued their winning streak this show season, at the latest event...
Beef
Experts have warned the UK Government to maintain food standards to at least EU levels in a new report published...