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Farmers have been encouraged to apply for the National Walks Scheme, which is set to double the number of national walks and “benefit”…
People just don’t know the devastating impact their dogs can have on livestock when they come across them, according to one midlands farmer’s…
Procurement managers are starting negotiations with sheep farmers at 500c/kg (excluding quality assurance (QA) and producer group bonuses) for hoggets. When QA payments…
A ewe on a farm in Co. Galway has somehow managed to defy all the odds for two years in a row by…
Michael Creed, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, has responded to the UK’s planned tariff regime in the event of a…
Latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that the agricultural output price index for calves declined by 17.2% in the 12…
Members of An Garda Siochana are investigating a dog attack in which a number of sheep were killed in Co. Meath in recent…
Start the spreading season off on a high with the correct set-up of your fertiliser spreader. Although the current wet weather conditions have…
Farmers who buy compound feed rations have been urged to insist on Irish grains, according to a farm-lobby group’s grain chairman. The Irish…
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has released its preliminary figures for the outputs, inputs and incomes in agriculture for 2018. In the CSO’s…
A number of sheep have been killed in a dog attack in Co. Laois this morning (Wednesday, March 6). Taking place in Durrow,…
A candidate representing Fianna Fail in the Ballina, Co. Mayo, local elections has claimed that sheep farmers with no cattle in the county…
The leading causes of sheep deaths in the winter months of 2018 have been revealed by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the…
Farmers are encouraged to bargain hard when it comes to marketing their sheep. This comes as processors move to tighten their grip on…
A Co. Sligo sheep farmer has called on the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed to extend single electronic tagging…
Compulsory Electronic Identification (EID) tagging cannot be imposed on sheep farmers at an additional cost of €2 million per annum if marts and…
Statistics gathered by a farm-lobby group indicate that there are in the order of 300-400 sheep attacks in Ireland each year, with 3,000…
Irish feed mills have been called on to “immediately pass through” the fall in feed ingredient raw material prices to livestock farmers. The…
