Sheep
This week's sheep trade sees the lower lamb price offers tabled last week holding for this week, though higher prices have eased.
Machinery
Ireland’s annual hedge-cutting season officially gets underway tomorrow, September 1, and runs through to the end of February.
Agri-Business
An investigation has been carried out into fraud of satellite navigation funds for machinery, which was linked to Russia's military industry.
Store lamb buyers "are in short supply" in the south-east with the lack of grass preventing them from "getting involved in the trade".
FRS Solutions Group Society will be known as Feirm Co-op, with all aspects of the co-op's business coming under the new identity.
An Coimisiún Pleanála has ruled that the use of a shed on a Co. Wexford farm to house pigs is not exempted development.
Beef
Farmers have welcomed a total ban on beef from Brazil entering the EU from Thursday (September 3).
Environment
The National Pesticides and Drinking Water Action Group (NPDWAG) has warned that it only takes one drop to impact a drinking water source.
Opinion
Yes, the autumn has arrived, and for many farmers it will be the busiest time of what has been a very challenging year.
Tillage
Water scarcity could triple international wheat prices during the period ahead, a new international study has concluded.
UCD graduate Marie Sherwood has been awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science for her ground-breaking contributions to Irish agriculture.
This week's factory quotes for beef cattle see the lower price offers from last week taken off the table for this week.
Grass
High levels of mycotoxins could be a key characteristic of grass silage crops made in Ireland this year, according to animal nutritionists.
Food prices are estimated to have gone down by 0.2% in the last month, new figures from the CSO show.
A €30 million facility in Nobber, Co. Meath that converts agri-food waste into biomethane is now connected to Ireland’s national gas network.
The Fendt 500 Vario was awarded the gold medal for innovation at the 64th annual AGRA exhibition in Gornja Radgona, Slovenia.
Ciaran Mullooly has said the office of the EU's health chief has confirmed to him that a ban on beef from Brazil will start from Thursday.
Rural Life
The weather this week will remain on the unsettled trend we've seen in recent days, with more persistent spells of rain developing.
Lungworm
With rain beginning to fall following a prolonged period of dry weather, the risk of lungworm is back on the table.
Kilkenny Mart hosted its weekly general cattle sale on Thursday (August 28), with approximately 820 cattle on offer.
TB
A total of 28 vets were suspended from TB testing by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine between January 2024 and March 2026.
A new report on red meat retail performance in the UK has shown that red meat volumes have declined 1.5% year-on-year.
N.Ireland
A new generation of young women are making their mark in a very positive way, both at farm level and within the agri-business sector.
Dairy
A direct relative of Ireland's highest classified cow came under hammer for €7,900 at the Eedy youngstock sale held on Saturday (August 29).
Met Éireann has issued a Status Yellow rain and thunderstorm warning for Ireland.
The new legacy fund will support charities and community organisations local to its sites across the island of Ireland.
Bluetongue
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) foresees no difficulties with vaccine supply for the bluetongue virus (BTV).
When grass regrowths stalled in late July on the farm of Micheal and Kieran Dunne in Trim, Co....
Three Irish agricultural shows have hosted bitless showing classes this August, with the 4th taking place at Clonshire Show, Co. Limerick.
Milk Price
The end of the drought is finally in sight as rainfall is reported nationwide, but where has it left milk production?
More suckler-bred weanlings were sold at marts in 2023 and 2024 than than calves under six weeks-of-age; however, 2025 bucked this trend.
The Emyvale, Co. Monaghan-based McAnenly Family is busy preparing for its annual in-calf heifer sale later this month.
