Tillage
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has released further information about the new scheme for baling straw this year.
Tillage News
The Department of Agriculture (DAFM) confirmed that farmers will have to supply geotagged photos to claim the straw baling scheme payment.
Machinery
The Kverneland FastBale is no longer a novelty; designed to bale, wrap and eject without stopping, it has been on the market since 2016.
Rural Life
An Garda Síochána have been stopping farmers towing unsecured bales on trailers and reminding them of the risk they can pose.
Dairy
Keeping high quality grass in front of cows is essential to maintain high quality milk production. During the spring of this year (2024...
Local farmer, Tom Moyles from Co. Mayo has donated 10 silage bales to the North West Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
As first-cut silage is being harvested and stored on many farms across the country, it is time to...
An Garda Síochána were out on patrol when they stopped a tractor with a dung spreader carrying heavily overloaded bales in it.
Dairy Technical
As we move into the backend of the year the opportunities to complete field work become less and less, but the weather for now is still allowing this to happen.
From using calving cameras for CCTV, to creating physical barriers at gates, coming up with ways to prevent the theft of bales has become a necessity for many farmers.
Silage bales have a role to play on almost every Irish livestock farm, with silage contributing between 25% and 40% of dairy and beef animals diets.
Bales have a vital role to play not only for feeding in the winter, but for keeping grass quality high on farms during high growth periods.
Gardaí have confirmed that no-one was injured following a collision involving a tractor and trailer of straw bales in Co. Cork.
During the freezing cold spell last week, while the rest of us wrapped up warm, one Limerick...
Machinery News
Case has taken its LB 424 XL square baler and added some metal to the mechanism to give 10% denser bales over its still available sibling.
Beef
Farmers across the country took advantage of the hot, dry weather over the past two weeks by opting to secure baled hay.
Gardaí in Co. Meath have launched an investigation after "extensive damage" was caused to a large number of bales in the county.
The Irish Grain Growers' Group (IGGG) is advising tillage farmers to really consider which option...
A debate that takes place among farmers around this time of the year is the topic of making pit silage or round-bale silage.
During the summer months and into early autumn, farmers/contractors are busy making and transporting bales, whether they are silage, hay or straw.
Agri-Business
Farmers have been urged to ensure that they secure loads when transporting bales of hay, straw and...
An appeal has been made for information in relation to an incident where a number of hay bales were set alight in an act of vandalism in..
A tractor and trailer were pulled over by road policing Gardaí at the weekend in Co. Kilkenny for an unsecured load of bales.
