Rural Life
An 18 month-old U-grade Belgian Blue cross heifer or €2500 in cash are the top prizes in Borris-in-Ossory/Kilcotton GAA raffle in Laois.
Beef
In the past week, as high as €7.41/kg was paid for weanling bulls at Carnew Mart, as the strong beef trade continues.
The inaugural Showtime Supreme Blues sale of pedigree Belgian Blue bulls, heifers and embryos took place via online...
A Kerry dairy farmer has told how his uncle, who is a priest, has encouraged him to keep surprise triplet calves recently born on his farm.
Dairy News
Different breed (Heteropaternal) twin calves have been born to a Fleckvieh-cross cow on a farm at Kiltullagh, Co. Galway.
A 445kg Belgian Blue weanling heifer has sold for a record-breaking €21,500 at the Carrick Winter Fair tonight, Monday, November 27.
Carnew Mart, Co. Wicklow, hosted its annual Belgian Blue weanling show and sale sponsored on Wednesday, September 13.
Agri-Business
Former UFC Featherweight and Lightweight Champion Conor McGregor has said that he is on the look out for Belgian Blue bulls.
Classical pianist Fiachra Garvey is taking a break from helping out on the family farm to put the...
Tynagh-Abbey/Duniry GAA Club will hold an Easter fundraising draw for a Roan Belgian Blue Cross two-year-old U grade heifer or €2,500 cash as well as five other prizes.
Limerick-based artificial insemination (AI) firm Bova AI bought the Belgian Blue bull at the McGee family’s on-farm sale.
Based in Co. Westmeath, the McGee family's second online sale of suckler breeding stock drew to a close last night (Monday, December 5).
Belgian Blue is the star of a fundraising draw for nine-year-old Bryan, who was recently diagnosed with a rare neurological disease...
Belgian Blue breeding in Bandon got international recognition earlier this year - when a bull bred...
Popular Belgian Blue bull Manitou de Belle Eau or DBZ is no longer available from AI company Progressive Genetics.
Video
Sixth in the series of George Goes Dairy Farming With the attention on many dairy farms turning to the oncoming...
N.Ireland
Three of Northern Ireland's beef societies have teamed up for the first time to hold their individual spring bull sales together tomorrow.
Farming in Randelstown, Co. Antrim, James and Nelson Alexander - a father-and-son-team - run an in-calf heifer selling enterprise.
Ballyjamesduff Mart’s weekly cattle sale took place on Tuesday last (February 13) and a large crowd attended the sale.
A Co. Antrim British Blue herd which selectively breeds for white cattle has wowed blues judges in Northern Ireland.
While embryo transfer accounts for just 3% of the 2013 pedigree calf crop, it accounts for 48% of the Belgian Blue crop.
