Dairy
Dairy focus: Keeping efficiencies to the fore when moving from 165 to 275 cows
Eamonn and Darren Healy entered a dairy farming partnership in 2009. In the intervening period, their business has undergone substantial...
Dairy
Eamonn and Darren Healy entered a dairy farming partnership in 2009. In the intervening period, their business has undergone substantial...
Rural Life
Having taken over the family farm from his father in 2006, Keith Symes was inspired by a UK farmer who...
Rural Life
While classical pianist, Fiachra Garvey, may be very much at home performing in international concert halls, his heart remains firmly...
Environment
Following the granting of full planning permission by Wicklow County Council, construction and development to the value of €38 million...
Forestry
Oak trees are once again being planted at Coollattin Woods, in Co. Wicklow, following the 2016 purchase of the estate by...
Rural Life
Gorse burning has been mooted as a possible solution to the deer problem facing farmers in Co. Wicklow, the ICSA’s...
Rural Life
A farmer out of season can’t shoot deer and that law is going to have to be changed, Pat O’Reilly,...
Rural Life
If you take the TB issue out of the debate, deer are an economic issue to farmers because they’re grazing...
Sheep
A farmer’s sheep, who were grazing in an area close to the Wicklow Mountains National Park, were the victims of a dog attack...
Environment
The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Andrew Doyle, is urging people to buy a real Irish Christmas...
Beef
Cattle farmers in Co. Wicklow are in dire straits when it comes to TB outbreaks, according to IFA’s Tom Short....
Other
The Department of Agriculture is proposing to fund a pilot project on the use of deer fencing, designed to alleviate...
Rural Life
There is a growing concern among landowners and recreational users of the uplands in the wake of the recent judgement...
Rural Life
The deer population of Ireland has reached unacceptable and intolerable levels as they encroach further every year onto farmland, according to IFA...
Rural Life
Mountaineering Ireland has refuted claims from the IFA and ICSA that farmers should be worried about a recent court judgement...
Environment
Dozens of dead deer have been discovered in a pit in the well-known Co. Wicklow estate of Luggala, following a...
Agri-Business
Both Kilkenny and Wicklow IFA held committee meetings last night (Thursday) in the wake of a report released by Con...
Rural Life
A total prize fund of €40,000 is up for grabs for livestock producers at the upcoming annual Wicklow Co. Show,...