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National and local news around farming
● Relaxed fertiliser spreading rules and fodder imports are set to be among the demands of farm organisations at a meeting with Agriculture Minister Martin Heydon this week. As a severe grassland crisis grips the south and east of the...
Record cattle prices are reshaping how Irish consumers buy and eat beef, with shoppers increasingly opting for mince and value cuts while shifting away from steaks. The volume of beef mince sold in Ireland increased by 14pc yearon-year in the...
Calls for a new live export stakeholder group were among the demands from a meeting in Athlone last weekend as animal rights groups turned their focus on Greenore Port. It comes after Brittany Ferries decided to pull out of the livestock...
Dairy farmer Tim O’connell harvests ‘Gretchen’ variety spring barley for Barryroe Co-op using a 2002 New Holland TX62 combine in the 40-acre field in Boxtown, West Cork, yielding 3.2 tons per acre.
The Department of Agriculture has recouped more than €5m in payments from farmers in suckler and sheep support schemes, while a further €2.2m has been issued in penalties. The figures come as the latest Teagasc National Farm Survey shows...
Seád Ní Mhaoilmhia from Kinsale, who competed in the horse ploughing class, tries her hand at tractor ploughing with a Massey Ferguson 147 at the De Courcey Classic and Vintage Club competition on Christy Draper’s farm, in Artiteige,...