Grass
How to maintain grass quality when growth barely meets demand
It has been extremely difficult to maintain grass quality in June, but staying on an 18-19-day rotation definitely helped us...
Grass
It has been extremely difficult to maintain grass quality in June, but staying on an 18-19-day rotation definitely helped us...
Sheep
Weaning is the time to check ewes for culling, according to Pat McCambridge of the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise...
Dairy
Continuing low milk prices are putting real pressure on farm cash flow with fertiliser and contractor bills to be paid,...
Rural Life
There are certain things that only Irish farmers would understand and we’ve compiled a list of some of our favourites!...
Beef
Last week saw the prime cattle trade in the UK move upwards for another week. According to the ADHB, despite numbers...
Dairy
Noel McCall is a dairy farmer with a difference; he’s milking 90 cows but he owns none of the land...
Grass
Many farmers regard the thistle as the bane of there lives when it comes to managing their grassland. Creeping Thistle...
World News
An American cow has set the Guinness World Record for being the tallest cow ever in the world. The Holstein...
Dairy
Arla Foods is to cut its UK July milk price by 1c/kg; this is the equivalent of 0.77p when applied...
Agri-Business
London’s first underground farm, located in a disused World War II bomb shelter at Clapham Junction, will start supplying produce...
Arable
World wheat output expectations for 2015/16 have been slashed by 4m tonnes compared with last month, according to AHDB Cereals...
Agri-Business
The Department of Social Protection has estimated that an average of 9,400 farmers per week will claim farm assist this...
Arable
The results of genetically modified (GM) wheat trials carried out by Rothamsted Research in the UK confirm that the cultivars...
Grass
Irish livestock farmers could improve the output they achieve from grazed grass, if they moved away from set stocking, according...
Agri-Business
FoodCloud has won the ‘Industry Innovator’ award at the Checkout Best In Fresh Awards for its work distributing surplus food...
Sheep
Shearing sheep hasn’t been a paying proposition for the past number of years, according to Co. Antrim sheep farmer Campbell...
Sheep
There is a growing amount of UK sheepmeat exports to non-traditional EU markets, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) says....
Dairy
Dairy margins will remain tight in the short term, and dairy farmers are asking what they can do to reduce...