Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture (DAFM) issued payments for over 200 Kerry Cattle calves last year in a bid to support breeders.
Beef
The Stranorlar Traditional Native Breed Cattle Show and Sale hosted its first-ever multi-native breed show and sale on Saturday, November 18.
Ballybofey and Stranorlar Co-operative Livestock Mart is set to be the venue for a show and sale of rare-breed cattle.
Forestry
Alex and Carina Coyningham have been running Rock Farm in Slane for 12 years now with a mix of rare breeds, pigs, poultry and tillage.
Rural Life
The old Irish goat was approved as a native rare breed to Ireland today by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, today.
Sheep
Cavan-based farmer and entrepreneur Sandra Coote is helping to re-establish the Roscommon sheep breed.
N.Ireland
The broadcast of the final episode of the current series of UTV’s Rare Breed – A Farming Year, has been postponed by a week.
Farming TV series 'Rare Breed' is set to return to screen on Tuesday (January 12, January) with seven families from across Northern Ireland giving an inside view of the ups and downs of the year so far.
Visitors to the award-winning Tannaghmore Rare Breeds Animal Farm in Co. Armagh are being advised not to feed the animals after goat deaths
The hugely successful 'Rare Breed – A Farming Year' is set to return to screens on Thursday with new families, new farms, and new challenges...and some familiar faces thrown in too.
The third annual Irish Rare Breeds Conference will take place from Thursday, May 16 to Saturday, May 18 2019.
The third episode of Rare Breed - A Farming Year was the most watched programme in Northern Ireland while it aired at 8:30pm on Thursday night.
‘Rare Breed – A Farming Year’ returns for a new series with new farms and families and some familiar faces on Thursday, January 17.
Three new farms are set to open their gates to the public as part of this year's Bank of Ireland Open Farm Weekend.
TB testing, a rejected calf and semen collection all feature on this week's episode of 'Rare Breed - A Farming Year'.
The return of 'Rare Breed - A Farming Year' was the most watched programme in Northern Ireland on its prime time slot last Wednesday night.
The latest series of ‘Rare Breed – A Farming Year’ is set to return to screens across Ireland with several new farming faces.
A farmer who lost his entire winter straw supply in a shed fire at the weekend has been left with no option but to buy in straw at £18 a bale.
A well-known Antrim farmer lost his winter supply of hay and straw after a shed fire destroyed thousands of pounds of supplies at the weekend.
UTV today announced details of its 'behind-the-scenes' farming series, which will broadcast on UTV Ireland in 2015.
