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Easter demand lifts lamb price to €10/kg
Darren Carty
Opening prices for quality assured spring lambs are in the region of €9.70/kg with regular sellers securing higher returns
Easter demand lifts lamb price to €10/kg
My Farming Week: Peter McGee, Ballintra, Co Donegal
9 April 2025 News
My Farming Week: Peter McGee, Ballintra, Co Donegal
On this edition of My Farming Week, we spoke to Donegal suckler and sheep farmer, Peter McGee, who recently had double sextuplet lambs on his farm.
Gardaí investigating after lamb found hung from gate
8 April 2025 News
Gardaí investigating after lamb found hung from gate
Gardaí attended the scene of the incident in Summerhill, Co Meath, on Saturday 5 April.
Lowest sheep kill in over a decade
Throughput for the first quarter of 2025 fell by over 150,000 head or 23% when compared with Q1 in 2024.
5 April 2025 News
Supports needed after Connemara farmers lose sheep to floods - Senator
Senator Kyne spoke in the Seanad about the aftermath of storm Bert in 2024 which saw one farmer lose at least 70 sheep which drowned in the floods and widespread damage to fencing.
4 April 2025 News
Kepak appoints new chief financial officer
Kepak made the announcement on Thursday that will be effective immediately, seeing Martin take over from Robbie Grogan, who is retiring after 34 years with the business.
3 April 2025 News
Spring lambs selling upwards of €9.60/kg
Factories are exhibiting greater demand for lambs to fill niche orders for the Easter trade.
3 April 2025 News
New selection process for actions in sheep welfare scheme
Participating farmers must select two actions from a category A listing with the third action from a category B listing being optional, writes Darren Carty.
2 April 2025 News
Teagasc seeks builder for new sheep shed in Athenry
The farm is located at Mellows Campus, Co Galway, approximately 3km from Athenry town centre, with its animal and grasslands research and innovation centre operating within an 82ha site.
1 April 2025 News
New €22m National Sheep Welfare Scheme opens
The Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon announced the scheme on Monday which has a budget of €22 million and is a continuation and expansion of a similar scheme that operated in 2024.
31 March 2025 News
Two farmers disqualified from owning animals in 2024
Figures obtained by the Irish Farmers Journal from the Department of Agriculture showed that a number farmers have been barred from owning cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry and horses since 2021.
30 March 2025 News
Northern Irish sheep farmers struggling to remain viable without support - UFU
The UFU and the Northern Ireland Sheep Industry Taskforce have reiterated calls for urgent action to support the affected local farmers and to tackle scab appropriately and effectively.
28 March 2025 Northern Ireland