Farming

The EU's crop monitoring service MARS cut its 2020 soft wheat yield forecast again on Monday to take account of rain damage in southeast Europe but lifted estimates for most...

The European Union's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier expressed confidence at a closed-door meeting with member state envoys to the bloc last Friday that a new deal with Britain was possible,...

The farmer was just closing the gate to his field when we happened upon him. Normally I'd pass by with a simple greeting.

YOU need to go back to 2018 to understand what drove beef farmers to the picket lines in 2019.

The company behind the National Ploughing Association of Ireland (NPA) would have been staring at losses of €3.5m to €4m this year if Covid-19 had only struck Ireland now.

Safety chiefs have failed to identify a single person filmed performing reckless manoeuvres with farm machinery, despite promising to take strong action.

It sounds criminal now, but the nitrogen norm on Teagasc's trial farms around Moorepark in Cork used to be 390kg/Ha.

European leaders reached a deal last week on the EU's medium-term budget, the Multi-Annual Financial Framework (MFF), and on a European stimulus fund called Next Generation EU to address the...

Ireland is failing to address escalating levels of toxic ammonia (NH3) air pollution, a nitrogen pollutant with harmful effects on delicate ecosystems and human health.

Over the last two months base prices for bullocks and heifers have climbed, plateaued and climbed again.

Dawson Auctioneers of Tullow sold three Carlow farms totalling c188ac at an outdoor auction held on the property.

Factory quotes for lamb fell yesterday by between 10-30c/kg, while the quotes offered for cull ewes by the main processors were either up 5c/kg or down 10c/kg.

A farmer and his wife have been spared the prospect of bankruptcy and the loss of their family farm after a court ruled they could avail of personal insolvency arrangements...

CallS by the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) for the removal of livestock from commonages on the Nephin Mountains and Owenduff areas of north Mayo have sparked a furious row between...

Work on legislation that would reduce Fair Deal nursing home costs for farm families has been postponed till the autumn.

It is rarely I read a book at one sitting, but I read Con Hurley's most recent publication without a break.

With the calendar for 2020 lacking any agricultural shows, machinery manufacturers are somewhat limited in options when it comes to getting the news of their innovations out to the customers.

With farm safety week fresh in the mind from last week, now is as good as time as ever for me to have a look around my own farm and...

The most recent bTB numbers don't look good. We're at the highest level of bTB in Ireland since 2012 and this continues the trend of a gradual, ongoing increase in...

Dawson Auctioneers of Tullow sold three Carlow farms totalling c188ac at an outdoor auction held on the property.

There are now effectively two "sections" within the Beef Plan Movement says Eamon Corley, one of the main figures behind the founding of the organisation.

Calls by the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) for the removal of livestock from commonages on the Nephin Mountains and Owenduff areas of north Mayo have sparked a furious row between...

Safety chiefs have failed to identify a single person filmed performing reckless manoeuvres with farm machinery, despite promising to take strong action.

Businesswomen Joanne Russell followed her instincts when she closed her dry-cleaning business to focus on farm and family life. Apart from running the dry-cleaners, she was also working as a...

Government and EU policy is very much focussed on encouraging farmers to hand over or share the reins with the next generation sooner rather than later. This is evidenced by...

On Sunday afternoon, February 17, 1980 a Clonmel businessman Michael Webb and his 15-year-old son Mike were exploring the monastic site at Derrynaflan with metal detectors.

With the calendar for 2020 lacking any agricultural shows, machinery manufacturers are somewhat limited in options when it comes to getting the news of their innovations out to the customers.

A Government commitment to fully fund Pillar II schemes for the next CAP programme could secure an additional €1 billion for the farm sector.

Losses on winter barley will top €250/ac in some parts of the southeast, cereal growers conceded this week.

There have been attempts to convince Irish herd owners, that last year's Beef Plan Movement protests caused more harm than good.

Over the last two months base prices for bullocks and heifers have climbed, plateaued and climbed again.

Mention Derrynaflan and people of a certain vintage will remember the discovery of the famous chalice and paten along with other mediaeval ecclesiastical treasures.

Eoin Cooney farms outside Virginia, Co Cavan, and is contract rearing heifers for Gerard O'Reilly. He has had two reactors in recent weeks, with the cattle only being moved from...

Two weeks ago, our farm hosted two groups of farmers. On Monday, July 13 a Grass10 meeting took place after a lapse of 23 weeks; two days later, the discussion...

Factory quotes for lamb fell yesterday by between 10-30c/kg, while the quotes offered for cull ewes by the main processors were either up 5c/kg or down 10c/kg.

Despite living on the outskirts of Boyle, Co Roscommon, an area traditionally associated with suckler beef farming, Sean Connaughton and his wife Liz decided to set up a dairy herd...

It's the time of year when I begin to focus my attention on preparing the flock for the breeding season. Although I won't be letting the rams out until the...

A PAIR of competition organisers who raffled a tractor on social media were left red-faced after bungling the draw in spectacular fashion.

Pippa Hackett has had a short but very charmed political career. This time last year, she was an Offaly county councillor after getting just 584 first preference votes in the...

Pippa Hackett has had a short but very charmed political career. This time last year, she was an Offaly county councillor after getting just 584 first preference votes in the...