The positive start to 2020 for sheep farmers continues this week with lamb prices now well and truly breaking through the €5/kg mark.
The difficulties encountered by tillage farmers in getting winter crops in the ground last autumn have been well documented but this opens the door to include spring beans into the farm crop mix. The recently published Teagasc eProfit monitor report for 2018 has shown that only fodder beet is delivering a higher margin for tillage...
Slurry spreading season kicks off this week with counties in Zone A allowed to spread as of yesterday. The opening dates for counties in Zones B (January 16) and C (February 1) are also fast approaching.
The Beef Taskforce has heard that there have been no requests to date for the lairage weighing service which processors agreed to provide in the September beef agreement.
THE 2019 farm figures from the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) make for stark reading. Eighteen people were killed on Irish farms last year, all were men, and 13 were aged over 60. While these statistics got lots of media attention, it was a conversation with a farmer's wife which really brought home to me...
Between now and the end of March there will be approximately three million lambs born in Ireland.
It's been nearly nine years since Tipperary woman, Angela Hogan, lost her partner, Brendan Kelly, to a farm incident, but for her, the pain never really goes away.
