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Liver fluke control on organic farms
Liver fluke can be a big threat on organic farms, causing considerable animal health and welfare issues and significant economic...
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Liver fluke can be a big threat on organic farms, causing considerable animal health and welfare issues and significant economic...
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The growing resistance of roundworms to anthelmintic treatments is threatening sheep farmers’ ability to control the parasites. Tom Coll of...
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Sheep marts across the country are starting to see numbers slowly creep up, as the weather in recent weeks has...
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Common health issues around lambing time and the important role nutrition plays in having a successful lambing season was highlighted...
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Grass, genetics and the technology transfer of this innovative research to sheep farmers across Ireland is key for the future...
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AgriLand’s Richard Halleron addressed a meeting for sheep farmers, held recently in Tralee. Courtesy of his presentation he discussed the...
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Genetic evaluations are a powerful tool for sheep farmers that enable them to make more informed breeding decisions and potentially...
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There was little or no evidence of the further spread of Schmallenberg (SBV) infection during 2013 contrary to what was...
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The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) this week launched a new protocol to help farmers who encounter a dog attack on...
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Irish live sheep exports almost doubled to approach 70,000 head in 2013, and the new market of Libya is proving...
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Delegates attending this morning’s Agri Food Business Partners conference in Dublin were told that Government must do more to support...
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Future agri-environmental schemes offer the opportunity for claimants with commonage land to receive slightly higher payments than a non-commonage farmer...
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“Compared to last year the sheep sector is in a much better position at this point,” according to Declan Fennell,...
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Sheep Ireland has signed a record-breaking 500 breeders to its LambPlus programme. It noted the growth in performance recording breeders has been...
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The Irish Hill Sheep sector plays an important role in the economic health of rural economies and the maintenance of...
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Speaking at the Bord Bia Live export seminar in Tullamore this week, IFA National Livestock Chairman Henry Burns said the...
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According to statistics released by the Department of Agriculture the lamb kill in Ireland was up six per cent or...
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Irish sheep producers hoping that natural immunity might help protect their sheep from Schmallenberg virus may have had their hopes...