Farming

Deputy Michael Healy-Rae has warned that restrictions currently imposed on marts will have "a savage knock-on effect" nationwide - including on those who do not realise the importance of the...

After a 15-year battle with Kerry County Council, renowned West Kerry musician Breanndán Ó Beaglaíoch has finally won the right to live on his own land, following a successful appeal...

After a 15-year battle with Kerry County Council, renowned West Kerry musician Breanndán Ó Beaglaíoch has finally won the right to live on his own land, following a successful appeal...

After a 15-year battle with Kerry County Council, renowned West Kerry musician Breanndán Ó Beaglaíoch has finally won the right to live on his own land, following a successful appeal...

Silage quality is key to good animal performance and reducing winter feed costs during the housing period.

Silage quality is key to good animal performance and reducing winter feed costs during the housing period.

Several individuals occupying a Co Roscommon farm, which was the scene of a controversial eviction in 2018, remain on the property, the High Court heard.

Several individuals occupying a Co Roscommon farm, which was the scene of a controversial eviction in 2018, remain on the property, the High Court heard.

The heartbroken mother at the centre of a murder-double suicide involving her two sons is unlikely to return to her family home.

The number of staff earning over €100,000 at the State's agricultural agency Teagasc totalled 55 last year.

It's about time serious questions were asked of the decision-making process of the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET).

New figures show that 10pc of drystock and dairy farms have “significant” fodder deficits this winter.

IT was a case of putting down roots in more than one sense when Caitriona and Robert Cullen decided to build a home in 2009 on their newly purchased land...

Best known for its skid steer loaders, Bobcat has gradually increased its range of machinery over the years to encompass many of the material handling machines found on farms.

Farmers waiting more than four months for a forestry licence for roads and felling should be given an amnesty.

A widening in the divide between producers and Irish consumers of dairy products has been identified as one of the major challenges facing the sector.

Large investment in state-of-the-art green-field farm developments may not be sustainable into the future, the dairy sector has been warned.

Why have farmers got such a toxic relationship with land? The tragedies in Kanturk had me mulling over this.

The new Climate Bill going through the Dáil is anti-Irish, and this approach is being further locked in by the EU re-negotiation of our 2030 climate targets.

Irish farmers are lining up to have solar farms built on their land with one solar company receiving more than 50 enquiries from interested farmers every week.

Draining a field or area of the farm will incur substantial capital investment. So the decision should be based on the potential for a return on the investment.

MORE than 40 animals have been slaughtered at a farm in east Donegal in recent weeks following an outbreak of Bovine TB.

Many farmers are facing a stark choice of being forced to sell stock online or house as horrendous weather conditions over the weekend and late last week brought a sharp...

Mark Goodman is to leave his role of Managing Director of ABP International, the company confirmed this evening.

In a significant boost for thousands of farmers nationwide it has been confirmed 2020 advance payments under the Green Low-Carbon Agri Environment Scheme (GLAS) will commence this week which is...

SLOW and steady expansion over the decades has seen the Roche family expand their Mallow Road Holsteins dairy enterprise from seven cows to the present herd of 170 high yielders.

A few years ago Des Greene finished cattle and said he'd never do it again. “I finished bulls one year at 530kg deadweight and the factory would cut you on...

At any time of the year coastal farms in West Cork have a magical quality, none more so than a c.42ac residential farm overlooking Seven Heads Bay with the Old...

At any time of the year coastal farms in West Cork have a magical quality, none more so than a c.42ac residential farm overlooking Seven Heads Bay with the Old...

At any time of the year coastal farms in West Cork have a magical quality, none more so than a c.42ac residential farm overlooking Seven Heads Bay with the Old...

The father at the centre of a murder-double suicide involving his two sons had spoken about such tragedies and their impact on families on at least three occasions.

An extraordinary Victorian house on a manicured site with 71ac of grass and woodland located just outside Cavan town is attracting lively interest from near and far. On the market...

The factory agent was candid “my phone is not ringing off the hook but there still seems to be plenty of cattle about”. An understandable statement given that the kill...

A young farmer who is lucky to be alive after he was crushed by a cow has warned others about the need for safety.

For the past few years, crop machinery has sat idle in many Australian farm sheds as a devastating drought left almost nothing to harvest across the country's pancake-flat eastern wheatbelt.

A High Court judge has said that any person occupying a farm in Co Roscommon after 6pm this evening (Sunday) are likely to find themselves being jailed for contempt.

November is a month when we traditionally remember our dead. Those of us seasoned by length of days find that with every year, our remembering becomes almost mirror-like, reflecting back...

November is a month when we traditionally remember our dead. Those of us seasoned by length of days find that with every year, our remembering becomes almost mirror-like, reflecting back...

By planting a sign in early October supporting Joe Biden on a country road near her Minnesota dairy farm, Meg Stuedemann initially stood out from her neighbors.

The sudden violence that every so often erupts in rural Ireland touches something deep in the Irish psyche: an ancient obsession with land and its hold on the family.