Gerard Rynne runs Inagh Free Range Farm, a family-run pig and chicken farm near the village of Inagh in central Clare. He has been coming to the Lahinch Reko Ring since it began and says it has opened his business up to a totally new market.
Over a month has passed since an agreement brokered by farm organisations, and meat factories brought an end to an historic dispute which brought the industry to a standstill. The agreement signed on September 15, will likely set the scene for the development of the beef industry over the next decade. In the deal processors...
The amount of land sold in 2018 increased on the previous year, with more than 25pc of sales in the west, according to latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
This week marks the 20 year anniversary of my grandad Pat McCullough's death. It is hard to forget that autumn in 1999. We were still trying to save the last of the onions, even though that crop should be out of the field and tucked up in a shed by the end of August if...
The 2019 'Champion of Champions' truly lived up to his reputation in both the show ring and the sales ring at the Irish Limousin Cattle Society Premier Show and Sale at Roscrea Mart.
With the Macra Rally over for another year, all eyes are on the youth organisation's next event on the social calendar - which is of course Queen of the Land.
Winter has arrived and farmers all over the country are busy housing what stock they can.
