Preview of what's in this week's issue:

In news:

  • Bank sells farmer's herd
  • Farmers face 4x4 tax problems
  • GLAS III to open
  • Farmers form blockade of Shannon bridge in Offaly
  • My farming week: We profile pig farmer, Jonathan Marry from Drogheda
  • LLAES series: We visit the Wicklow Uplands Council as they aim to rejuvenate the land for farming
  • On and Off farm: We look at beginner welding courses
  • Focus: 11-page Buildings & TAMS II supplement where we will give examples of itemised cost breakdowns for a grant spec for a 4 bay suckler shed and calf creep, a 14 unit milking machine and bulk tank, a 72 cubicle shed, a silage pit and slurry store

  • Labour saving tips: Make loading fertiliser easy with our labour saving tips
  • Dairy: Fertility in focus as breeding approaches
  • Grass management: Growth up but challenges remain

  • Business Sense: Saying no to land that doesn't pay
  • Sheep: A suckler-to-beef enterprise and mid-season lambing flock are bringing the best out of John Pringle's farm in Wicklow
  • Supplement: free 48-page crop protection magazine

    • Property: 

    • €8,550/acre for Carlow parcel of land
    • 63.5 acre residential Kerry farm bid to €490,000 at auction
    • Offaly land makes €13,100/acre
    • 112-acre farm less than 3 miles from Dundalk on the market
    • Kildare land makes over €16,000/acre
    • Guide price reduced for 130 –acre farm in Cork
    • Historic 180 acre landmark for sale in Meath with a guide price of €3.5m

      • And in Irish Country Living:

    • Get your rural moments captured in our 2017 photography calendar competition
    • We meet Marie O’Toole, the first Dubliner to head the ICA
    • Planning your pension. Why now is the time to act
    • Ennis woman, Lisa Fox takes us on her journey to losing 3 stone
    • Stars line out for Inniskeen country festival in Monaghan

      • Don’t miss out and pick up your copy of the Irish Farmers Journal today!