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National and local news around farming
Sisters Alice (17) and Ellen Drohan (19), pictured here on their farm Cooney’s Yard, will be hosting traditional sheep-shearing demonstrations at the upcoming Comeraghs Wild Festival taking place across the Copper Coast and Comeragh...
● With Controlled Finishing Units (CFUS) accounting for an increasing share of Ireland’s beef output, questions are being raised about how this aligns with Ireland’s grass-fed image, writes Catherina Cunnane. Grass-fed production and...
Both farmers and non-farmers worry about climate change and say they are willing to take action, yet they underestimate each other’s worry and willingness, according to new research by the ESRI’S Behavioural Research Unit. The findings...
Dairy farmers are being warned amid a shortage of replacement heifers that the most expensive heifers are “the empty ones you don’t know about”. “There isn’t a massive amount of replacement in the country, so every cow you keep now as a March...
Agri contractor Leigh Foley and his son Beau on the farm of Bill and Liam Foley from Windgap, Youghal, Co Cork, to launch this year’s Dairygold ‘Wrap it Pink’ campaign with the Irish Cancer Society. The campaign is now in its 12th year.