On a cold autumn evening in 1929, Séamus Delargy of the newly founded Folklore of Ireland Society came west to Clare in search of the lost stories of Ireland.
If factory prices fail to get above €4/kg in early 2020 then it's time to "close down the Irish beef sector altogether", ICSA beef chairman, Edmund Graham, has warned.
The average family farm income in Ireland increased by an estimated 7pc in 2019, according to new figures from Teagasc - but the increase was due to a reduction in the use of feed and additional subsidies.
It is said that a person's house is their castle, but for Richard Moeran and his wife Jacqueline their farm is their castle - they have a castle on their farm on the Meath/Cavan border in Mountnugent.
"We're told there are a lot of sheep gone out of the UK because of Brexit. If that's true prospects have to look good," Jim Bushe of New Ross mart said after his sale yesterday.
How the year slips by. Already we are assembling the figures for 2019. Our cows are winding down for a well earned rest after a long and productive lactation.
A COLLAPSE in the export of waste to China has seen "gigantic piles" of farm plastics build up in several locations around the country, with the situation worsening daily.
