Farming

With silage cutting season underway, the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) and the Road Safety Authority (RSA) are making a joint appeal to drivers of farming machinery and vulnerable road users to share the road safely. The IFA has already urged farm families to be very vigilant about safety around the […]

Teagasc are commencing a series of weekly dairy webinars, ‘Let’s Talk Dairy’, every Thursday morning at 10.30am. Head of Dairy Knowledge Transfer in Teagasc, Tom O Dwyer said: “These webinars will provide timely, relevant, technical messages for dairy farmers and dairy industry stakeholders. A key feature of the webinars will […]

ICSA beef chair Edmund Graham has said cattle supplies remain tight and are likely to stay that way over the coming weeks. “With stock scarce, the days and weeks ahead provide an opportunity for farmers to fight for a decent price. Factories are actively looking for cattle, and will likely […]

Agri-professionals are invited to join a free webinar on land management, drainage and water table control, this coming Friday, May 1 at 9.30am. The hour-long webinar will be presented by Philip O’Brien, Scientific Officer at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and it will be moderated by a research officer at Teagasc. It is […]

Macra na Feirme has called on all rural TDs in government formation talks to ensure that the national herd is maintained. This call comes amid reports that a Green Party TD has indicated that, “there will need to be some reduction in the national herd.” “While the Green Party has […]

Ireland South MEP, Billy Kelleher has said that yesterday’s vote by the European Parliament’s AGRI Committee to extend the current CAP rules by two years, and to demand a stronger budget should be taken up by the Minister for Agriculture and championed at EU Council level. The Fianna Fáil MEP […]