Dairy
Intensive dairy farmers most at risk of farm accidents
If you’re a full-time dairy farmer, over 55 years with over 30ha, you’re more likely to have a farm accident...
Dairy
If you’re a full-time dairy farmer, over 55 years with over 30ha, you’re more likely to have a farm accident...
Rural Life
An eight-year-old girl has become the latest person to die in a farming accident this year, bringing the total number...
National Ploughing Championships
Electricity is a wonder of nature: it is also extremely dangerous. Those were the key themes addressed by Minister for...
Rural Life
At the National Ploughing Championships next week, Macra na Feirme, the young farmers and rural youth organisation, will highlight the...
Rural Life
As the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine launches a National Farm Safety Initiative, and in the first of...
Rural Life
Another farmer has been killed in a farm accident, bringing the death toll from farming-related accidents this year to 21....
Agri-Business
The news of another farm fatality was the opening greeting of the Health and Safety Authority’s (HSA) National Conference on...
Machinery
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has said that farm accidents are preventable, after two children die in the past...
Other
In the same week as National Farm Safety Day, two farm deaths have occurred, including the death of Offaly’s U-21...
Rural Life
Today is National Farm Safety Awareness Day and all stakeholders in Irish agriculture are calling on farmers to take time...
Beef
The weather for the next few days is set fair. So, let’s hope that farmers and contractors will have the...
Agri-Business
Insurer FBD has reported a fall in pre-tax profits in 2013, which it said was caused by a small number...
Breaking News
Gardai and the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) are investigating the death of a 26-year-old man who died in a...
Breaking News
Dairy farmers need to learn from the mistakes of the Celtic tiger property boom and not leap into post-quota expansion. This...
Breaking News
According to statistics from the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) some 18 farmers lost their lives working on their farms in...
Breaking News
Severe weather events have cost insurance companies hugely over recent years. This is according to Stewart Gavin, product manager at FBD, who...
Breaking News
A new booklet entitled ‘Staying Fit for Farming’ promoting farmers health and healthy lifestyles was launched today at the National...
Breaking News
Dairy farmers need to learn from the mistakes of the Celtic tiger property boom and not leap into post-quota expansion. This...