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Pro-active farmers head up Twitter campaign on farm safety

February 3, 2018

A Tipperary farmer who previously suffered a slurry accident has initiated a Twitter campaign to highlight the importance of farm safety. Noel Clancy…

Meeting to hear how one woman trebled her farm income

September 2, 2017

Rural Life

Twitter trebled Suzanna Crampton’s farm income, and she will show others how to do the same at an upcoming meeting. Crampton is the…

Pic: ‘Two tyred’ this morning? Gardai stop a trailer missing two wheels

April 4, 2017

Rural Life

The Garda Traffic Corps in Co. Cavan pulled over a driver towing a trailer that was missing two wheels at a checkpoint this…

Pics: Lambing 2016 is well underway on farms across the country

February 19, 2016

Sheep

The 2016 lambing season has well and truly began with farmers across the country and the UK spending many hours of the day…

Pics: Snow hit the country last night – there was some great shots on Twitter

January 15, 2016

Environment

Snow, ice and frost hit the country over the past number of days, with Met Eireann issuing orange and yellow snow-ice warnings. Northern…

Pics: A break from the rain with some great winter sunrise shots

January 6, 2016

Rural Life

This morning, parts of the country experienced a break from the rain that has been a constant over the past number of weeks.…

Friday feeling: This calf thinks it’s a dog…

November 6, 2015

Agri Politics

A Holstein calf in the US believes that he is a dog and can even be found sitting comfortably on his owner’s couch.…

A goat has been made an honorary recruit of an Aussie bomb squad

October 27, 2015

Agri Politics

A kid by the name of Boxer has been made an honorary recruit of the New South Wales Rescue and Bomb Disposal Unit…

Silage 2015 is in full swing, has your photo made the cut?

June 5, 2015

Grass

Silage cutting is taking place across the country at the moment and while rain in places has led to problems with the first…

Video: Top Gear’s Richard Hammond has taken to sheep herding

April 23, 2015

Agri Politics

Sheep herding is helping to fill Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond’s spare time now that Top Gear is off air for the moment. The…

Are Ireland’s farmers tweeting as much as the rest of the world?

April 9, 2015

Rural Life

Irish farmers on Twitter have been tweeting on average 95 times a year and 67% of Irish farmers are tweeting off their smartphones,…

The Twitter reaction to milk quotas being abolished

March 31, 2015

Dairy

Milk quotas in Europe will be abolished this week. For over 30 years farmers had limits on the amount of milk they could sell.…

Dublin student wins Holy Cow! competition

November 7, 2014

Agri-Business

Dublin student Martinn Cousins, from Crumlin, has won Agri Aware’s Holy Cow! competition. The competition was part of the ‘Follow the Farmer’ campaign,…