A breeding heifer payment is needed to encourage farmers to breed additional heifers, the manager of one Co. Kerry-based mart has said. Speaking to Agriland, Gortatlea Mart manager, Maurice Brosnan ...

Farmers should be looking at the current ground conditions as an opportunity to revamp roadways to prevent lameness this autumn and into next season. There is still a good three months of grazing ...

The government's current hot meals scheme is a “disgraceful discrimination” against small schools and rural communities according to the leader of Independent Ireland. The Independent Ireland Cork ...

North Cork Creameries is a farmer owned co-op processing an estimated 315 million equivalent whole milk litres a year. The co-op has categorically stated that "it is not the cause of the Blackwater ...

Part of the success Castlecor Potatoes has enjoyed is down to the company's ability to adapt machinery to suit the needs of an uncommon crop here in Ireland. The home of onion-growing technology is ...

A new festival celebrating creativity, wellness and Ireland’s hedges, HedgeRow Fest, will take place at Mount Briscoe organic farm, Daingean, Co. Offaly, on Saturday and Sunday, September 6 and 7.

The Irish Angus Dunleavy Meats Bull Calf Championships and Youth Development Programme (YDP) Young Stockperson of the Year was hosted at Moate Show, Co. Westmeath, on Sunday, August 24. Open to Irish ...

Some farmers opt to go once-a-day milking later in the herds' lactation to take the pressure off labour and help build condition and health for the cows. Once-a-day milking (OAD) can be used long-term ...

Paul Marrs, AHV’s Health and Longevity Manager, explained: “We’re working with Muchgrange and other dairy farms to increase ...

For the establishment of clover, the soil fertility needs to be at optimum levels in order for the plant to persist and ...

The Kennedys are milking 393 crossbred cows on Drangan Farm, Cahir, Co. Tipperary where the family affair produces milk to the highest standard with work-life balance and farm efficiency in the ...

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