Rural Life
HSA updates its farm safety Code of Practice for the first time in over 10 years
A revised version of the ‘Code of Practice for Preventing Injury and Occupational Ill-Health in Agriculture’ (farm safety Code of...
Rural Life
A revised version of the ‘Code of Practice for Preventing Injury and Occupational Ill-Health in Agriculture’ (farm safety Code of...
Machinery
At the moment, there is a growing fear among farmers that steps could be taken to ban traditional splash-plate slurry...
Rural Life
A livestock haulier has received penalty points and a fine from Gardai for causing a stink with his leaky truck. The haulier’s...
Rural Life
Footage has emerged of a farmer being pulled from his tractor by police in the UK as he tried to...
Machinery
The Association of Farm and Forestry Contractors in Ireland (FCI) is in favour of a future end-date for splash-plate slurry spreading...
Rural Life
A farmer in the UK was forced to spread slurry in a field which had been taken over by between...
Grass
There is a wide range of prices currently being quoted by agricultural contractors around the country to get slurry spread. Quotes...
Machinery
Waterford-based agricultural contractor Patsy Nugent has taken delivery of a new flagship 2500-gallon SlurryKat tanker, complete with a 9m dribble...
Machinery
The Association of Farm & Forestry Contractors in Ireland (FCI) has responded to the questions raised by the Clean Air...
Machinery
Dutch machinery manufacturer Vredo has developed what it says is the world’s largest and most powerful self-propelled slurry machine – the...
Rural Life
Additional risk assessments in slurry handling and harvesting will form part of the Health and Safety Authority’s (HSA’s) review of...
Rural Life
Two cows and one calf had to be rescued from slurry tanks on two different farms in Northern Ireland in...
Machinery
A familiar sight around Bullaun near Loughrea, Co. Galway is Doyle Agri’s Hydro-Trike – a 3-wheeled self-propelled slurry tanker, complete with an...
Environment
A Co. Armagh farmer has been fined £500 (€575) for polluting a waterway with slurry at Newry Magistrates Court recently. Sean Magill,...
Machinery
Castleagri is owned by Dermot Tobin, who has been a farmer in Ireland for the past 30 years. He is...
Environment
Nitrates Derogation applications for 2017 can now be submitted online, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed,...
N.Ireland
Two calves have died after they fell into a slurry tank at a farm in Carrickmore, Pomeroy, Co.Tyrone on Tuesday...
Grass
There has been plenty of discussion around fertiliser application in January and it is not a once size fits all...