Grass
Common chickweed has been shown to reduce silage yields and quality in research trials. Teagasc says that chickweed can become...
Tillage
Crow attacks on crops are more likely to occur at dusk when flocks are returning to their rookeries, research carried...
Agri Politics
Parents in Italy who subject their child to a vegan diet could face anywhere between one to six years imprisonment...
Dairy
The ICBF has revealed that the base cow –Â the genetic reference point for the EBI of all dairy cattle in...
Are you having problems with ragwort, the yellow-flowered noxious weed, on your farm? If ingested, animals can show symptoms such...
Sheep
This year’s Borris Ewe Breeders Show takes place on Thursday, August 11 at the local Borris mart. The annual event...
Rural Life
How many farming ads for scour treatments for cattle and or doses for sheep can you remember from your childhood?...
N.Ireland
Over the past month, the price differential between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK for R3 grade cattle...
Figures released by the Central Statistics Office this week said that farmers work a 49-hour week. However, a poll by...
The rate of growth of Northern Ireland’s food and drinks processing sector has slowed, new figures from the Northern Ireland...
Agri-Business
Agri-researchers and companies have been awarded €6.32m in EU funding from the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The funding...
The search is on for the 2016 International Miss Macra, with the competition taking place on the August bank holiday weekend starting...
A farmer in Northern Ireland has been handed a three-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, on several animal welfare...
With dairy farmers currently receiving in the region of 23c/L for milk, one Tipperary farmer is managing to get an...
With the good weather over the last couple of days harvest 2016 has kicked-off in Ireland, with combines and tractors...
Botulism is becoming more of a concern in Northern Ireland as outbreaks continue to occur, according to the Department of...