Met Éireann is now providing a grass growth forecast in its weekly Farming Weather bulletin, and work is also underway to provide seasonal forecasts in the future.
After months of turmoil in the Department of Agriculture, another new minister is due to be announced today.
A line in the musical Oklahoma! posed the thorny question: could the farmer and the cow-man ever get along? “One man likes to push a plough, the other likes to chase a cow, but that's no reason why they can't be friends.”
Grain growers are in a race against time to get as much of the harvest completed before more heavy rains hit the country this week.
I gave myself a good scare last week when I attended a safety training day.
The first sale of buffalo in an Irish mart will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) in Thurles.
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