Sheep
ICSA sheep chair, Willie Shaw said that processors are acting in bad faith by attempting to cut lamb prices when supplies are "clearly tight".
Sheep News
Getting ewes and lambs to grass is a welcome relief to farmers in reducing the workload but key management tasks should also be kept in mind.
One Donegal farmer is in awe as two of his ewes have both delivered sextuplets with all 12 lambs born alive and healthy.
Rural Life
Upland farmers are more economically challenged but also have opportunities to diversify into ecological services, a meeting has heard.
Blatnaid Gallagher is the proud proprietor of "Murray Meadows", a 120 acre organic sheep farm which pioneers farm diversification.
Beef
The 2024 Irish Grassland Association (IGA) beef event will take place outside Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, on the farm of Martin and...
The IBLA have announced details of an information night for sheep farmers to highlight the benefits of forward contracts for producing lamb.
Sheep Technical
With 2,000 farmers to begin a conversion to an organic sheep system this year, there are many steps that must be considered.
Sinn Féin's Claire Kerrane said Minister for Agriculture, Charlie McConalogue must outline support measures for Irish sheep farmers.
Large crowds of farmers and agri-industry personnel attended a Kepak sustainability farm walk in Athleague, Co. Roscommon.
Minister Charlie McConalogue met with the sheep chairperson for the IFA this week to discuss financial challenges in the sector.
Agri-Business
The IBLA has encouraged its members to support a protest organised by the ICSA to highlight the crisis in the sheep sector.
The Irish Natura and Hill Farmers' Association (INHFA) called on the government to address the "severe challenges" facing the sheep sector.
The president of the ICSA, Dermot Kelleher, has said that funding is urgently needed to support active suckler, beef and sheep farmers.
Video
Christopher O’Neill is a sheep and suckler farmer based in Castlemaine, Co. Kerry, who runs the farm with his father...
Around half of sheep farmers have a positive outlook for the sector, despite input cost concerns, according to the Irish Farm Report by Ifac.
The Teagasc outlook for the sheep sector is a positive one and forecasts a further 23% increase in net margin per hectare for 2021.
Minister McConalogue has been called on by the ICSA to deliver clarity on the future of the Sheep Welfare Scheme.
Environment
From little seeds do acorns grow – or so the old adage tells us - but it certainly rings true for one Munster sheep farmer.
Improving flock health and performance will be a key theme for discussion at this year's National Sheep Farm Walk in Westport next week.
Factories are anxious to source lambs and are finding it difficult to secure adequate numbers, according to the IFA's Sheep chairman.
A ewe on a farm in Co. Galway has somehow managed to defy all the odds for two years in a row by giving birth to six live lambs.
A candidate in the Ballina local elections has claimed that sheep farmers with no cattle in Mayo are "not eligible for commercial tax".
