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News Headlines (ROI)

  • Revealed: Dáil plan for farming – what is the new programme for government planning for your schemes and payments?

  • Beef prices rocket to record levels

  • Increasing tractor driver age limit ‘not the right approach’ according to the Association of Farm and Forestry Contractors in Ireland

  • New rules on drainage to hit 35,000 farmers

  • Who’s tipped to be the next Minister for Agriculture?

  • How climate law was prioritised in key wind farm ruling

  • The second part of our farming scandal series looks back at the 2009 emergency budget, horsemeat scandal and fodder crisis

  • We have the latest on the foot-and-mouth cases in Germany and answer your questions on the disease

    • News Headlines (NI)

  • UFU plan for thousands of tractors at IHT rallies

  • Finished cattle prices on upward curve

  • UK minister ‘sorry’ for inheritance tax raid
  • Fertiliser hit by January price hikes

    • Focus – calves part one

  • The first week of our calves focus has a 15-page special with advice on preparing for 1.6m births in three months

  • New year, new price: the rise in milk replacer costs

  • Important calf-related dates and scheme compliance
  • Essential tips for disbudding and castration of calves

  • Should Commerical Beef Value decide the price you pay for calves?

  • Five key areas of calf housing

    • AgriBusiness

  • Mick O’Dowd, head of agri-business, meat division at Kepak speaks to Phelim O’Neill about an initiative targeted at dairy-bred calves

  • IFAC’s 2025 Irish Farm report finds that farmers are overall more positive but say that red tape is their biggest challenge

    • Livestock

  • Jack Kennedy reports from the Yara-sponsored Irish Grassland Association annual dairy conference

  • Dairygold suppliers vent anger over milk price and bonus

  • Australia sets export record in 2024

    • Tillage

  • A record 12 varieties make the spring barley list

  • Fertiliser prices creeping upwards

    • Irish Country Living

    • In the first of our investigative series we examine hospital car park charges around the country – how much did your hospital make in what’s being dubbed the illness tax?

  • We report from the BT Young Scientist Exhibition

  • The Irish companies taking an “ethical-first” approach to coffee bean sourcing

  • Don't miss our CAO special with all you need to know

    • Pedigree

  • Castledale British Friesians clinch the Buckhurst cup for a third time

  • Cattle breed societies feeling optimistic about the year ahead

    • Machinery

  • Exclusive - JCB appoints completely new agri dealer network in Ireland

  • Alpego – the rising Italian manufacturer that quadrupled turnover in the last decade