Farmers in the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) face large fines if they are not compliant with the scheme's targets by October. The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) is to write to farmers currently failing to meet the scheme's requirements to inform them of where they stand and what the penalty for non-compliance will...
Teagasc has said that farmers using protected urea should adopt the same safety precautions as with any other fertiliser.
There's no easy or quick solution to the housing crisis in Ireland - and you might wonder what the issue is doing on the farming pages.
A surge in activity on farms across the country has been brought to a halt again by the heavy rains of the last few days.
I see that Sionad Jones escaped with nothing more than a slap on the wrist recently for sawing down 250 trees and killing another 250 in a Coillte plantation in west Cork.
Dairy market sentiment took a hit this week as the impact of the coronavirus continued to reverberate through the global economy.
Cattle shot by the Defence forces on a Monaghan farm were killed for 'health and safety' reasons, the High Court was told last week.
