Dairy
November milk production up 16.1%
Milk production on Irish farms last November was up 16.1%, compared to the same month in 2016, according to the...
Dairy
Milk production on Irish farms last November was up 16.1%, compared to the same month in 2016, according to the...
Dairy
A final call for applications to the €100 million Glanbia MilkFlex Fund has been issued by Glanbia Co-operative Society and it...
N.Ireland
Upcoming College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) open dairy days will focus on six main themes, including: feed...
Beef
In 2017, there were around 3.15 million individual searches for sires recorded on the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation’s (ICBF’s) animal search...
Beef
Over 3.7 million individual hits were recorded on the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation’s (ICBF’s) animal search facility in 2017. The animal...
Featured
More and more farmers are going online – not just for news but also to help maximise efficiency and profit...
Opinion
Confirmation of the two new production incentives announced last week by Dale Farm is further evidence of the growing production...
Opinion
The last two years have seen the milk sector monopolise the issue of volatility and the need to come up...
Dairy
Dairy farming in Co. Meath, Mark Cassidy is using the downtime between drying off and calving to prepare for next...
Opinion
DAIRY-UK’s man in Northern Ireland Dr. Mike Johnston is predicting that insurance-based systems will form part of the support mix...
Dairy
This year’s Irish Grassland Association (IGA) Dairy Conference – sponsored by Yara – will address the twin themes of managing...
Dairy
Milk production in the 23 major states in US was up by 1.1% in November, compared to the same month...
Dairy
A series of 10 ‘CalfCare’ events are scheduled for January, as an estimated 1.3 million calves are set to be...
Featured
Farming in Co. Derry, John Killen milks a herd of 200 high-yielding, crossbred cows under an autumn-calving system. As calving...
Opinion
It hasn’t gone unnoticed that the EU Commission is striving to offload its intervention milk powder stocks onto commercial markets...
CAP / Schemes
Calls have been made yet again for the suite of Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Schemes (TAMS II) to include grant-aid support for...
Featured
Eugene Fitzpatrick farms over 75ha of land in Lisryan outside Granard, Co. Longford, and supplies milk to Lakeland Dairies. Eugene...
Opinion
This month sees outgoing Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA) president, John Comer, move on to the next phase of...