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News Headlines (ROI)

  • Minister kills cow exit plan

  • We reveal the cost of making a bale of silage this summer

  • Lakeland Dairies boss optimistic about price

  • New fodder scheme: the key details revealed
  • Tillage area slippage a concern - Minister

  • Farmers unaware of 60% TAMS solar grants

  • Drystock farmers warned of nitrates penalties

  • One-fifth of west Wicklow herds locked up with TB

  • No rain forecast for the next week – Met Éireann

  • New report discourages one-off rural housing

  • Lough Funshinagh flooding the ‘worst in living memory’

    • News Headlines (NI)

  • Spring lambs soar to record highs

  • Lakeland edges ahead of Dale Farm

  • CAFRE advice on cutting dairy waste

  • Banks can help with farmers’ cashflow

    • AgriBusiness

  • Lakeland reports €8 million loss for 2023

  • Insight into growing importance of US for Irish Dairy exports

    • Livestock

  • Aidan Brennan reports from the Teagasc farm walk on the Bowden farm in Co Kilkenny

  • Organic farmers eligible for new sheep welfare scheme

    • Tillage

  • Ten tips for crop establishment in a difficult spring

  • Revving up disease control on barley

    • Focus – Renewables

  • Renewables gathering momentum, but will policy catch up?

  • Interest high, but challenges remain for renewables

  • Solar PV seems popular, but some challenges remain- IFA

  • Tapping into the bioeconomy potential of grass

  • Full report from the latest Renewables Roadshow in Co Kilkenny

    • Irish Country Living

  • Short stories: Comedian Pat Short turns it into a family affair

  • Legal advice for a reader who’s son and his partner are living in their family home rent-free

  • Beefing up the European market - what impact will PGI have on Irish beef?

    • Pedigree

  • Thespian hard act to follow

  • Tipperary Sam lifts the top price in Cashel

    • Machinery

    • Silage wrap prices back by €10 - 13/roll but plastic levy sees further increase – find out more in our 20-page baled silage special

  • Fusions are the answer for one Kilkenny contractor

  • Hear about sixty years of New Holland at Basildon