Weanlings Sale & Suckler Cows on Sale at Roscommon Mart Good numbers were on offer again this week with ...
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A Mayo farmer has claimed that one of his suckler cows has had two calves nearly two weeks apart. Michael ...
Clonagh Herds has scooped national titles at nearly all agricultural shows across the country, and they have just set the ...
The removal of milk quotas fuelled the Keaveney family’s desire to expand their dairy farm. The enterprise, situated in Ballymoe, ...
As part of a new series, That’s Farming interviews 2019 Nuffield Scholars. First up, Catherina Cunnane speaks to Ailish Moriarty, ...
That’s Farming is rolling out a new readers share their views segment. As part of this series, our readers can ...
Fourth-year UCD veterinary medicine student, Alix Cunneen, is chasing her childhood dream. Although the 22-year-old did not grow up on ...
Aurivo Balla Mart, Co. Mayo will play host to Walter Brennan’s hotly-anticipated 13th annual in-calf heifer sale this Friday (November ...
Retired livestock auctioneer, Peter Holland (72), claims that he has sold over 1.6 million cattle in his lifetime. He decided ...
Noel O’Neill began farming a sheep and suckler enterprise in his own right in 2003. The Tinahely, Co. Wicklow native ...
Former professional chef, Clodagh Hughes, runs a sheep enterprise on the Monaghan/Louth border near Inniskeen. This week, I am going ...
“I love farming because I’ve always had a grá for animals, more so the cows than the sheep. I believe ...
When Clodagh Sherman completed her Leaving Certificate, she initially enrolled in a specialist language programme at University College Cork. The ...
BEEF NEWS
With the large amounts of rainfall recently, most beef farmers have housed the last of the beef cattle by now, ...
Cluainview Farm is a low-input, grass-based sustainable cow/calf operation using regenerative planned grazing management with an emphasis on animal husbandry ...
A Mayo farmer has claimed that one of his suckler cows has had two calves nearly two weeks apart. Michael ...
Clonagh Herds has scooped national titles at nearly all agricultural shows across the country, and they have just set the ...
Housing is an ideal time to free the animals from worms both stomach and lung and also liver fluke, writes ...
Beef prices in major processing plants across Northern Ireland remained steady this week, according to the Livestock and Meat Commission. ...
The Teagasc National Beef Conference will take place as a virtual event next week in the form of a live, ...
Improving profitability on suckler farms is a challenge that has been achieved by farmers operating at high management levels, writes ...
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, T.D., today announced the publication of the final version of ...
A Limousin-cross-Belgian Blue heifer stole the limelight at the Royal Ulster Beef & Lamb Championships, yesterday (Tuesday, November 24th) when ...
The renowned Rathnashan Simmental herd’s first online sale of elite females and young bulls has been branded a resounding success. ...
The race to become the next national president of ICSA has begun. Two candidates are in the running following the ...
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Two young teenage farmers are organising a virtual tractor/truck/car run in memory of their late mother. Cathy Glennon passed away on ...
JCB has launched its first-ever electric Loadall model as the expansion of its E-TECH range of zero-emissions machines gathers pace. ...
Tom Pemberton tests the McHale C460 – Trailed Silage Feeder and Straw Blower.
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Three TY students have combined their love of agricultural machinery with their transition year student enterprise programme to raise money ...
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The registration of new tractors increased by 2% during in October in comparison to the same month of 2019. That ...
New Holland Agriculture has extended its acclaimed all-purpose T6 tractor range with a new 6-cylinder model, the T6.160 Dynamic Command™. ...
A Tipperary farm has reported significant improvements to the health of its soil since moving its tractor fleet onto Michelin ...
Quicke, one of the world’s leading suppliers of farming implements, has launched a new addition to their implement range. Following ...
An Garda Síochána wish to support Europol in a Europe wide campaign to promote safe online shopping during the Christmas ...
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Farmers can fit a new low-cost robotic platform to almost any agricultural implement to overcome the lack of available manual labour.
The Robotriks Traction Unit (RTU), created by start-up company Robotriks, costs £7,000.
Powered by batteries which last for 24 hours, it can be built within a few hours. It is...
Dairy News
230-cow herd calving all-year-round on 4-robot farm
Video: Ryan Black
Ingestion of Johne’s bacteria via colostrum or milk from an infected dam is a primary source of infection for calves, ...
The 2020 dairy season is almost finished on most spring-calving herds, writes Michael Donoghue, B&T Dairy Adviser, Teagasc, Galway/Clare Region. ...
A prosecution taken by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has led to an €8,000 fine for a dairy farmer. Mr Brian ...
Teagasc will work with dairy farmers to “accelerate” the green and digital transformation of dairy farming towards more sustainable systems. ...
Teagasc is predicting that by 2027, dairy cow numbers will increase to 1.65 million. The forecast is contained in the ...
The removal of milk quotas fuelled the Keaveney family’s desire to expand their dairy farm. The enterprise, situated in Ballymoe, ...
A 550-cow grass-based spring-calving dairy farm is seeking an assistant farm manager. The farm is located 10 minutes from Kilkenny ...
As part of a new series, That’s Farming interviews 2019 Nuffield Scholars. First up, Catherina Cunnane speaks to Ailish Moriarty, ...
“Everybody must start somewhere, but a good attitude and an interest can take you a long way. One must set ...
In this article, Nicholas McKenna, Teagasc dairy specialist, has summarised a checklist of the important tasks to be undertaken on ...