Beef prices and weather unpredictability are piling extra pressure on farmers in recent years, the Samaritans have said.
'I've cut down to two slices of bread a day but there's one thing I still can't do without and that's butter on spuds." These are the words of Roscommon beef farmer Peter Naughton who has lost one stone and five pounds since joining the local Moore Movers initiative which began last January aimed at...
The change from summer to autumn brings a change in the weather and with it, a change in grass growth. This brings with it some cattle health issues that are unique to this time of year.
The Healys achieved success by embracing modern practices years ago, and they are still adopting new ideas
Mart health-check screenings means that farmers don't have to scrub up - and it could save their lives, Dr Noel Richardson of the National Centre for Men's Health in IT Carlow said.
The 26th of July, 2016 started out like most days for me. I had always been blessed with good health so I rose without an ache or a pain.
A year on from opening up to the nation about his battle with depression and burnout on The Late Late Show, dairy farmer Harold Kingston urges farmers that even when they are feeling their worst, there is always somebody to talk to.
