It's been another excellent month for farming. Dry ground, growth matching and slightly exceeding demand, some grass bales made, some reseeding completed, pit silage on target for early June, breeding on or even ahead of target.
Let the games, sorry, exams, begin! I will breathe a sigh of relief when I drop our daughter Sarah to school tomorrow, as she joins 60,000 or so others in doing the Junior Cert and a similar number doing the Leaving. The wait is over.
There is an onus on the Department of Agriculture to treat customers with fairness as well as upholding the applicable regulations when carrying out an inspection and applying penalties.
Depopulations were a nightmare for dairy farmers in the late 1980s, but one such traumatic event 32 years ago proved to be a blessing in disguise for the one family in Co Cork.
John Garvey doesn't believe his new app FarmHedge is online shopping for farmers - he feels it goes beyond that and is game-changing for both farmers and suppliers.
A FISHERIES dispute has broken out between Ireland and Scotland, focusing on the area around the territory of Rockall.
The world is entering "a new phase" where big outbreaks of deadly diseases like Ebola are a "new normal", the World Health Organisation has warned.
