• Bord Bia backs down, with quicker retests for farmers who fail QA inspection.
  • The real cost of TB to farmers.
  • The world’s largest beef processor is set to relocate its headquarters to Dublin.
  • Best practice in worm control for sheep.
  • In our motoring focus: how to safely tow a trailer.
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  • A Donegal farmer sells a sheepdog in a UK sale for almost £15,000.
  • In a field far, far away - pictures of Star Wars in Donegal.
  • Ballinrobe reseeding demo packs a punch.
  • Ulster Bank urges farmers to talk about debts.
  • We visit a Roscommon contractor who is establishing wild bird cover for GLAS.
  • IFA president Joe Healy demands farmer payout of new sheep scheme.

  • Andy Doyle has a crops update from Cork.
  • Kerry farmers targeted in new farm assist scheme.
  • We profile award-winning share-milkers in New Zealand.
  • We feature a new dairy parlour and drafting system in Cork.
  • The latest updates on the Kerry milk price dispute.
  • Jack Kennedy reports from the Greenfield dairy farm open day in Kilkenny.

  • We profile a team of pedigree farmers from Armagh who competed at Balmoral Show.
  • Machinery stolen in Castleblaney, Co Monaghan.
  • Farmer Writes: Meath tillage farmer Gerald Potterton on buying a cyclone mower and Kilkenny sheep farmer Brian Nicholson on sub-dividing paddocks.
  • In property: Talks continue for 111-acre farm near Dundalk, details of a fine 105-acre fattening farm for sale in Kilcullen and we visit a 43-acre residential nature haven on the market in the Wicklow mountains.

    • And in Irish Country Living…

  • We look at the rural towns that have experienced contrasting effects since the crash of the Celtic Tiger.
  • Losing six pounds in six days, Ciara Leahy reports on the effects of the Pure Results Bootcamp in Parknasilla.
  • In sport: Summer really kicks off this Sunday in Semple Stadium when Cork take on Tipperary.
  • Living on a dairy farm in Waterford, we talk to author Karen Power on overcoming difficult life experiences.
  • How students from Moate have a flying idea to protect birds on farms.

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