Tag: covid-19

Government’s Covid-19 plan utterly fails rural Ireland – Fitzmaurice

‘Most farming families across rural Ireland have been affected by cancer’

€15m fund for rural Ireland 

Beef trade: Further beef price rise in Northern Ireland

‘If you break that down to 365 days, it is working out at 90c/kg in the price of a weanling’

‘There would have been 5,000-10,000 cattle’ – mart manager

Level 5 restrictions in marts to impact cattle prices by €100-€200/head – Healy-Rae

Machinery auction rescheduled after online bidding system crashes

‘When you look after your machinery, it looks after you’ – ag contractor (54)

‘While farms have a lot of risks, they do not have to be dangerous’