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Article22pc of farms have less than 100 days’ feed avail­able

The next couple of weeks will be crit­ical in avert­ing a fod­der crisis next spring, as 22pc of farms have less than 100 days’ feed avail­able to them. Heavy, scattered showers are fore­cast this week by Met Éir­eann, which could help grass growth...

ArticleCoun­try’s largest hunt­ing organ­isa­tion loses High Court chal­lenge to ban shoot­ing 4 spe­cies of duck

Article‘Cost of car­rots rising faster than prices’

Car­rot prices would need to rise by more than 40pc to keep pace with infla­tion, accord­ing to grow­ers. They say the future of Ire­land’s favour­ite veget­able is under threat, arguing that pro­duc­tion costs have approx­im­ately doubled since 2020,...

ArticleWait­ing game

Pippa Cash­man from Glan­mire with her Jer­sey calf, wait­ing to enter the ring for the Young Hand­lers Dairy class at the annual agri­cul­tural show held at Bal­ly­gar­van, Co Cork.

ArticleCourt approves son’s ‘last-minute’ applic­a­tion in fam­ily farm dis­pute

A judge gran­ted an adult son’s “last-minute” applic­a­tion to be joined as a notice party in his par­ents’ judi­cial sep­ar­a­tion pro­ceed­ings after he claimed an interest in the fam­ily farm. The man had sought to be joined as a notice party in...

Article‘Worst may yet be to come’ as UK bluetongue out­break expec­ted to peak in Septem­ber

“The worst may be yet to come” for the UK’S bluetongue out­break, with the peak trans­mis­sion period expec­ted in Septem­ber as midge activ­ity remains high. Recent hot weather has accel­er­ated the spread of bluetongue in cattle and sheep in the UK,...