A Scottish farmer is facing a four-figure bill after fly-tippers dumped a lorry-load of asbestos sheets on his farm. The ...
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This Government needs to revise the Covid-19 restrictions in place for livestock sales. That is the view of independent TD ...
A “prime” residential farm holding is on the market in Cahernacreevy, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo. Michael Burke & Co is handling ...
Teagasc has released a series of beef budgets for winter finishing steers, weanling to beef (steers and heifers), store to ...
The 2020 Irish National Hereford Calf Show is taking place virtually this year. North Leinster Hereford Branch, which runs the ...
Guiding at €275,000 is what Quinn Property describes as a “beautifully restored” traditional farmhouse on a circa 05-acre site. Ruanmore ...
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A van towing a trailer was stopped at a checkpoint in Co. Laois over the weekend. Portlaoise Gardaí on patrol ...
A new world record price for a working sheepdog was set at a virtual online auction recently. Henna, a November-2016-born ...
Lely has launched a new shed system for separating mineral flows and converting emissions into value. The Lely Sphere separates ...
Kilkenny Mart’s sheep sale, which was held on Monday (October 19th), attracted some 400 entries, according to George Candler. Following ...
An increasing number of dairy farmers are looking to engage with other farmers to rear their replacement heifers for them. ...
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The Government has agreed a move to level 5 for a six-week period. A cabinet meeting to assess the NPHET ...
Aubrac cattle have proven to be game-changers on Alfie Hanbidge’s 70-strong suckler cow herd in Stratford-on-Slaney, Co. Wicklow. The seventh-generation ...
Advance payments under the 2020 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) (including Greening), worth €781 million, have commenced issuing, today, (Friday, October ...
Drumderg Farm’s expansion journey has allowed Margaret Little to take an alternative pathway, swapping full-time nursing for life as a ...
Couples are advised to consider symbolic dates when planning their big day and for Seán Ward, also known as Mad ...
FineStock.ie, a livestock competition website, is the brainchild of an innovative county Armagh beef farmer. The website, which went live ...
26-year-old Cathal Cassidy runs a 200-strong beef herd and 400-ewe flock with his father, Edward, while also working as a ...
Calf scour remains prevalent in UK herds causing significant long-term productivity and animal welfare problems. Provita Animal Health’s consultant vet, ...
Donal and Teresa Leahy have been running Leahy’s Open Farm since Donal inherited it from his parents, Eddie, and Eileen, ...
“I came to Ireland in August 2019 because I fell in love with a man from Connemara. I adore the ...
Edward Earle, Gorey, Co. Wexford, works as a quality engineer and farms over 300 ewes in partnership with his parents. ...
A circa 157.80-acre residential holding with sheds and outbuildings has been introduced to the market by Nicholas Dwane Auctioneer and ...
BEEF NEWS
The 2020 Irish National Hereford Calf Show is taking place virtually this year. North Leinster Hereford Branch, which runs the ...
Teagasc has released a series of beef budgets for winter finishing steers, weanling to beef (steers and heifers), store to ...
The Government has agreed a move to level 5 for a six-week period. A cabinet meeting to assess the NPHET ...
UCD animal and crop production student, Eilish Gill, has been passionate about breeding cattle from a tender age. She purchased ...
If we look at CSO data and compare the year 2000 with 2019, dairy cow numbers have increased by 328,000 ...
Entries reached €4.33/kg at Ballymote Mart’s weanling heifer show and sale on Friday (October 16th), according to a spokesperson. They ...
Paul Skyes has penned a letter to Irish Limousin Cattle Society members, following his departure from the position of secretary. ...
Meat factories must follow through on their commitment to supply live weight information to farmers, according to ICSA beef chair, ...
The North East Simmental Club will host its second annual commercial breeding heifer sale in the coming week. 16 in-calve, ...
Budget 2021 provides €102 million in specific targeted supports for livestock farming, according to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue. ...
Base quotes for in-spec U-3 grade prime cattle remained steady at 354-360p/kg at plants in Northern Ireland this week, according ...
Aubrac cattle have proven to be game-changers on Alfie Hanbidge’s 70-strong suckler cow herd in Stratford-on-Slaney, Co. Wicklow. The seventh-generation ...
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Lely has launched a new shed system for separating mineral flows and converting emissions into value. The Lely Sphere separates ...
The only thing in the world we all have in equal amounts of is time, writes Jim Dockery, FRS Network ...
Couples are advised to consider symbolic dates when planning their big day and for Seán Ward, also known as Mad ...
The further increase in carbon tax in the 2021 budget will add “significant extra” costs to farm and forestry contractors, ...
Reacting to the Budget, IFA president, Tim Cullinan, acknowledged the renewal of essential tax reliefs and the equalisation of the ...
FineStock.ie, a livestock competition website, is the brainchild of an innovative county Armagh beef farmer. The website, which went live ...
FCI CEO, Michael Moroney, has written to all contractors this week to outline the implications of the implementation of level ...
An incident involving an agricultural contractor, undertaking “commercial” work with a fast tractor, has addressed some confusion that has surfaced ...
‘We need to get recognition as the people who drive the tractors early in the morning and late at night’
John Hughes from Danville, Kilkenny has been elected as the Association of Farm & Forestry Contractors in Ireland’s (FCI) new ...
The “first” concept for the “fully autonomous” harvesting and feeding of fresh grass has been unveiled by a global producer ...
HSENI has launched its third Farm Safe Essential message, ‘Give Slurry Space’, which offers guidance when mixing slurry. The farm ...
Gardaí have launched an investigation after a “distinctive” blue trailer was stolen in an overnight raid. The trailer was taken ...
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Lely has launched a new shed system for separating mineral flows and converting emissions into value.
The Lely Sphere separates manure and urine, converts nitrogen emissions, and creates three types of fertiliser.
Dairy farmers can use these separated fertilisers for precision fertilisation. According to the company, this closes mineral loops better,...
Dairy News
Lely has launched a new shed system for separating mineral flows and converting emissions into value. The Lely Sphere separates ...
An increasing number of dairy farmers are looking to engage with other farmers to rear their replacement heifers for them. ...
There are four main factors when considering any cow house refurbishment or new build, according to Mark Scott, CAFRE senior ...
The Government has agreed a move to level 5 for a six-week period. A cabinet meeting to assess the NPHET ...
Former professional chef, Clodagh Hughes, runs a sheep enterprise on the Monaghan/Louth border near Inniskeen. What a difference a week ...
Aubrac cattle have proven to be game-changers on Alfie Hanbidge’s 70-strong suckler cow herd in Stratford-on-Slaney, Co. Wicklow. The seventh-generation ...
Arrowquip claims that its new flagship Q-Power 107 Series is “more than a silent hydraulic cattle chute”. The Canadian-based company ...
The Kirkwood farm, Co. Down is predominantly an autumn-calving farm with 145 cows plus replacement stock on the 100% grassland ...
A “substantial” circa 52-acre residential farm has been introduced to the market. The property, located in Cavantillycormick, Coa, Ballinamallard, Co. ...
Advance payments under the 2020 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) (including Greening), worth €781 million, have commenced issuing, today, (Friday, October ...
The only thing in the world we all have in equal amounts of is time, writes Jim Dockery, FRS Network ...
Drumderg Farm’s expansion journey has allowed Margaret Little to take an alternative pathway, swapping full-time nursing for life as a ...