Beef
Beef focus: 'You can read all the books you want, but it takes experience to farm'
Farming on the Sligo/Leitrim border, Declan Oates runs a suckler-to-weaning enterprise on 44ac of land. An additional 13ac of commonage...
Beef
Farming on the Sligo/Leitrim border, Declan Oates runs a suckler-to-weaning enterprise on 44ac of land. An additional 13ac of commonage...
Beef
The beef processing plants that were approved to export to China last month have been revealed, with ABP Nenagh, Kepak...
Beef
News that private-sector buyers in Turkey have been given the all clear to purchase weanling bulls in Ireland for export...
Tillage
Eamonn Burke is a farmer with a difference; he has no land of his own. The Co. Galway man farms...
Beef
Farming 50ha in Kilnamartyra, Co. Cork, Ger Dineen and his family have made considerable changes to their suckler-to-beef farm in...
Beef
The Irish Grassland Association Beef Conference and Farm Walk – which was sponsored by MSD Animal Health and Mullinahone Co-op...
Beef
During the week ending May 27, the number of cattle processed in Department of Agriculture approved beef plants increased by...
Grass
Some farmers, it might be argued, have been deluding themselves for generations – believing they are good grassland managers. Yes;...
Beef
The Irish Grassland Association Beef Conference and Farm Walk – which was sponsored by MSD Animal Health and Mullinahone Co-op...
Rural Life
Exposure to farming in childhood can sow the initial seeds of professional leadership that can be applicable to any sector...
Beef
Currently, the amount of suckler farms in Ireland using AI is low; somewhere in the region of 23% of progeny...
Buildings
Farming in Middlequarter, Newcastle, Co. Tipperary, Francis Hallinan operates a suckler-to-weanling enterprise; the Tipperary-based farmer also works full-time off the...
Beef
Farming in Moone, Co. Kildare, Thomas O’Connor and his parents – Monica and Tom – run a mixed farming operation,...
Beef
Although many factories are starting negotiations with farmers at 415c/kg for steers and 420c/kg for heifers, the number of cattle...
Opinion
This week’s confirmation that the European Union (EU) is to commence trade talks with Australia and New Zealand has bad...
CAP / Schemes
The introduction of non-European Economic Area (EEA) work permits under a new Government pilot scheme is “not a sustainable solution”...
Beef
As has been the case in recent weeks, beef cattle supplies remain relatively tight and factories are continuing to hunt...
Buildings
Farming just outside Cashel, Co. Tipperary, Anthony and Paul O’Connor – a father-and-son team – operate a suckler-to-beef enterprise. A...