Agri-Business
A University College Dublin (UCD) student has been announced as the winner of the 2025...
Dairy Focus
Animal welfare and sustainability are the main focus areas for a west Cork dairy farming...
The number of dairy cows in Ireland stood at 1,481,300 in December 2024, according to the Central...
Dairy
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is rolling out a national milk testing strategy to address...
Beef
Irish cow numbers as of September 1, 2024, is over 78,000 head below the same date of 2023, latest...
Dairy News
Iowa has become the tenth US state to have confirmed a case of avian influenza (bird flu) in a...
Pig/Poultry
The number of pigs in Ireland in December 2023 was down by 10.4% when compared with the same month...
Rural Life
The number of dairy cows in the country increased in June by 1.2% to 1,646,600 according to latest...
The Irish Farmers' Association (IFA) has claimed that a dairy exit scheme would restrict the growth...
N.Ireland
Researchers from the University of Bristol (UoB) have received funding to investigate whether...
The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers' Association (ICMSA) has said that it will consider a voluntary...
Dairy Industry Ireland (DII), the body that represents dairy processors, has said it cannot support...
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) has confirmed that a total of 3,658 dairy herds have...
The much anticipated inter-breed sheep championship at Ballymena Show 2023 was won by an...
A new UK-based research project which will focus on the issue of dairy cow heat stress has received...
Dairy Technical
In 2021, Scotland had a dairy cow population of 174,000 head, while Co. Tipperary had a population...
"A balanced cow with strength" is what the judge of the 2022 Diageo Baileys Champion Dairy Cow...
Having fresh, clean water for cows to drink is a key part of producing high-quality milk on Irish...
The well-known farm based in Co. Westmeath belonging to David Clarke and more commonly known as...
Selective breeding can reduce the methane intensity of dairy cows by up to 24% by 2050 through...
Adding a negative economic value for methane could facilitate a substantial reduction in methane...
With many farms drying off cows at present, consideration should be given to the body condition of...
At this stage, a proportion of cows in spring-calving dairy herds have been dried off or at least...
