The weather forecast told me yesterday to expect rain, hail, snow and falling temperatures over the coming days.
A massive gamble on beef prices is playing out in the country's marts as farmers, dealers and feedlot buyers have ignored stagnant factory quotes to push the cattle trade to a new high this winter.
A massive gamble on beef prices is playing out in the country's marts as farmers, dealers and feedlot buyers have ignored stagnant factory quotes to push the cattle trade to a new high this winter.
Another cut to all farmers' payments may be needed to secure sufficient funding for the National Reserve from 2021 onwards.
A massive gamble on beef prices is playing out in the country's marts as farmers, dealers and feedlot buyers have ignored stagnant factory quotes to push the cattle trade to a new high this winter.
Two prolific cow families, which have registered more than 700 progeny, have become the backbone of Peter Ging's Ballyclider Holstein-Friesian herd in Co Laois, one of the longest-established black-and-white herds in the region.
For the first time in 20 years, changes are being made to how the calving difficulty of a bull is calculated.
