Beef
Weekly cattle kill exceeds 36,000 head, as supplies approach the one million mark
For the second time this year, the weekly cattle kill has surpassed the 36,000 mark. During the week ending July...
Beef
For the second time this year, the weekly cattle kill has surpassed the 36,000 mark. During the week ending July...
Dairy
Dairygold has introduced a new €10/t rebate on all purchases of Compound Ruminant Feeds, effective from Monday July 23 to...
Tillage
The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) made a ruling today that gene-edited crops should be regulated in...
Environment
The Status Yellow drought advisory warning over Leinster and Munster has been extended this afternoon by Met Eireann. Soil moisture deficits...
Machinery
In continental Europe, John Deere has announced that the CommandPro joystick (pictured above) will become available on other (smaller) 6R...
Environment
Irish greenhouse gas emissions are rising rather than falling, meaning the country is completely off course in its efforts to...
Agri-Business
About 75% of one agricultural contractor’s customers are currently feeding silage due to the prolonged spell of fine weather stalling...
Machinery
This week Case IH is launching its Axial-Flow 250 Series combine harvesters at an event in Dresden, Germany. One such machine –...
Rural Life
Gardai pulled over a tractor and trailer for drawing an unsecure load yesterday (Tuesday, July 24) in Co. Tipperary. Stopped...
Dairy
Approximately 100,000t of skimmed milk powder (SMP) have been sold from intervention in the past four months, according to EU...
Machinery
SDF (Same Deutz-Fahr) has appointed Graham Barnwell as its new UK and Ireland country manager. Graham has spent most of...
Machinery
The Trump administration has placed “harmful tariffs on imports that are having a considerable impact on the machinery manufacturing industry”....
Rural Life
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) completed almost 2,000 farm inspections and investigations in 2017, representing approximately 20% of the total...
Machinery
Monday, July 9, saw the latest monthly Cambridge Machinery Sales auction take place at Cheffins Auctioneers’ sale grounds in Sutton,...
Agri-Business
A combined suckler and dairy farmer from Kilrush, Co. Clare, has been elected chairman of the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society’s (ICOS’s) National...
Rural Life
A 73-year-old man has died following a farm accident in Co. Galway yesterday (Tuesday, July 24), a spokesperson for the...
Agri Politics
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, has expressed concerns over how Ireland will precisely define a...
Rural Life
It is hoped that approved changes to the Fair Deal Scheme can be passed through both houses of the Oireachtas...