Dairy
€10,000 up for grabs at dairy livestock competition
A cash prize of €10,000 is up for grabs at the 2015 Diageo Baileys Irish Champion Cow Competition which is now...
Dairy
A cash prize of €10,000 is up for grabs at the 2015 Diageo Baileys Irish Champion Cow Competition which is now...
Rural Life
A total of over 2,500 acres of farm land has come on the market in the UK for a total of...
World News
One of the world’s largest dairy exporters is expecting stockpiling of food in Greece and has increased the quantity of...
Beef
Badger culling is to shortly begin in the second year of a test, vaccinate or remove (TVR) wildlife intervention research project,...
Dairy
The world dairy market has adjusted to the Russian ban on imports of food products from the EU, says Ornua...
Arable
The Soil Association in the UK is urging tillage farmers not to use glyphosate (Roundup, Touchdown) as a pre-harvest spray...
Beef
Lungworm infection or hoose is one of the most important respiratory diseases of cattle in Ireland, Animal Health Ireland (AHI) says....
Machinery
The forthcoming National Ploughing Championships this September will see the new Zetor Crystal being unveiled with its six-cylinder engine. This...
Arable
The humid weather over the last week has been ideal for potato blight to establish in the crop, with Met...
Dairy
Sexed semen demand has been lower than expected in 2015. This is primarily due to the lower milk price farmers...
Arable
Candian farmers have put up a reward of $500,000 for information on suspects sabotaging their potato crop with pins and...
Dairy
Farmers need to get over the stigma of location when it comes to growing grass, Teagasc’s Michael O’Donovan told farmers...
Dairy
Cows in the herd over 200 days milking should have a condition score at the moment of 2.5, Michael Garvey...
World News
It’s official folks, farming is officially cool; Madonna has bought a farm in the US for $2.2m. However it is not...
Arable
The Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney has confirmed that a review of the status of the commonly-used herbicide glyphosate is...
Dairy
The European Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan is living in an ‘ivory tower’ and is not recognising the economic pressures...
EU
The wording of the proposed EU legislation on vet medicines is “too vague and could jeopardize the health and welfare of animals...
Dairy
BVD test results continue to be received at ICBF and there have been 1.89m results received since January 1 2015. Since the...