Farming

Fine Gael has pledged it will only vote for an EU trade agreement that ensures a level playing field for farmers, if they are re-elected.

The positive start to 2020 for sheep farmers continues this week with lamb prices now well and truly breaking through the €5/kg mark.

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...

Farmers are being called on to help a midlands fundraiser. Tullamore Lions Club, in association with the farming community in the Midlands, is looking to raise funds to build a...

Farmers are being called on to help a midlands fundraiser. Tullamore Lions Club, in association with the farming community in the Midlands, is looking to raise funds to build a...

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...

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...

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...

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.

The positive start to 2020 for sheep farmers continues this week with lamb prices now well and truly breaking through the €5/kg mark.

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.

Between now and the end of March there will be approximately three million lambs born in Ireland.

Farmers are being called on to help a midlands fundraiser. Tullamore Lions Club, in association with the farming community in the Midlands, is looking to raise funds to build a...

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...

The last of my grass-finished cattle eventually departed the farm before Christmas.

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.

Fine Gael has pledged it will only vote for an EU trade agreement that ensures a level playing field for farmers, if they are re-elected.

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 positive start to 2020 for sheep farmers continues this week with lamb prices now well and truly breaking through the €5/kg mark.

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...

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...

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...

As he moved through the large cattle mart on the outskirts of Fermoy there was little evidence that the Taoiseach is as unpopular as the polls suggest he has become...

As he moved through the large cattle mart on the outskirts of Fermoy there was little evidence that the Taoiseach is as unpopular as the polls suggest he has become...

As he moved through the large cattle mart on the outskirts of Fermoy there was little evidence that the Taoiseach is as unpopular as the polls suggest he has become...

As he moved through the large cattle mart on the outskirts of Fermoy there was little evidence that the Taoiseach is as unpopular as the polls suggest he has become...

As he moved through the large cattle mart on the outskirts of Fermoy there was little evidence that the Taoiseach is as unpopular as the polls suggest he has become...

As he moved through the large cattle mart on the outskirts of Fermoy there was little evidence that the Taoiseach is as unpopular as the polls suggest he has become...

As he moved through the large cattle mart on the outskirts of Fermoy there was little evidence that the Taoiseach is as unpopular as the polls suggest he has become...

As he moved through the large cattle mart on the outskirts of Fermoy there was little evidence that the Taoiseach is as unpopular as the polls suggest he has become...

As he moved through the large cattle mart on the outskirts of Fermoy there was little evidence that the Taoiseach is as unpopular as the polls suggest he has become...

Bord Bia has refused to detail the level of payments and supports it receives from meat processors.

THE long overdue publication of the specially commissioned IFA study on beef prices at the factories - scheduled for release last autumn - has been further deferred.

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The Connacht/Ulster land market is dominated by private treaty sales involving smaller plots.

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This time next week Tim Cullinan will be president of Ireland's largest farm organisation, the IFA. Everyone is supposed to be nice to the new boy at the start of...

The Connacht/Ulster land market is dominated by private treaty sales involving smaller plots.

Significant changes are about to be introduced to all farmers stocked at greater than 170kg organic nitrogen per hectare (NPH) this spring. These rules will affect both farmers in derogations...