Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) published its updated reference costs for TAMS tranche 10.
Dairy Technical
With Zone A and Zone B now open for slurry spreading, it is important for farmers to remember that weather and ground conditions can...
An Bord Pleanála has rejected a planning appeal lodged by an environmental group against a cattle shed and slurry tank in Co. Cavan.
Environment
Sinn Féin TD, Martin Kenny has written to the Minister for Agriculture to extend the October 1 slurry spreading deadline.
The Department of Agriculture (DAFM) has issued advice to farmers whose slurry tanks are full as a result of prolonged housing of livestock.
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has urged farmers not to enter slurry tanks in order to inspect concrete slats in cattle sheds.
Rural Life
A suckler and sheep farmer from Co. Offaly is reminding other farmers to ensure their cattle slats in their sheds are structurally sound...
N.Ireland
On what was supposed to be his retirement party, a firefighter was called to assist in the rescue of 28 calves from a slurry pit in Co. Armagh.
A councillor called for a review of the planning process for slurry tanks and slatted units due to "blanket" objections to such developments.
Four cattle were reportedly rescued from a slurry tank in south Armagh this morning, according to local publication Armagh I.
Buildings
The Harneys recently constructed a 70-cubicle shed with one slatted tank; an un-roofed slurry lagoon was also installed alongside the shed.
A man had to be airlifted to hospital after falling into a slurry tank on a farm in Limavady, Co. Derry, yesterday morning (July 25).
Firefighters in Northern Ireland have recently come to the aid of two separate farmers in order to help rescue two trapped animals.
Two cows and one calf had to be rescued from slurry tanks on two different farms in Northern Ireland in recent days.
Four calves had a lucky escape recently after they fell into a slurry tank at Ashfield Road,...
Other
Gardai in Navan, are appealing for witnesses after a cyclist was knocked off his bike by a John Deere tractor hauling a green slurry tank.
Footage from CCTV cameras captured the moment a slurry tank crashed through a garden wall in the North on Friday, February 10.
Contractors around the country have been busy spreading slurry since the deadline lifted, just as some tanks were reaching capacity.
Not removing livestock from a slatted shed prior to agitating is the biggest risk taken by farmers when working with slurry.
Machinery
A slurry tank's workload is going to increase in the coming weeks, meaning these machines are going to have to be in perfect working order.
