BEEF

NI Blonde sale record broken in Dungannon

Rachel Gallagher

NI Blonde sale record broken in Dungannon

Grass+ Beef: growth still lackluster as covers deplete

Martin Merrick

Grass+ Beef: growth still lackluster as covers deplete

The Dealer

Debate on transport rules

Camera at the Mart: weanlings average over €4.50/kg in Balla

Martin Merrick

Camera at the Mart: weanlings average over €4.50/kg in Balla

FARM PROGRAMMES

SUSTAINABILITY

BEEF

DAIRY

SHEEP

DAIRY

Aidan Brennan

Dairy Trends: markets holding their own

There was a slight drop for butter on the European market this week, but most other commodities are holding their own, writes Aidan Brennan.

Dairy Management: how much fertiliser to put on silage ground?

Aidan Brennan

Dairy Management: how much fertiliser to put on silage ground?

Aidan Brennan goes through the fertiliser rates for first cut silage and discusses how to manage grass as the first rotation comes to an end.

James Hanly

Dairy beef weighing scheme addresses ‘huge mistake’ by Government – IFA

Darren Carty

€20/calf dairy-beef weighing scheme returns

SPONSORED

Land purchase considerations: key factors for farmers

The nature of farming like any business, is that farmers are continually investing in their farms, land, infrastructure, buildings, stock and machinery to improve on-farm efficiencies or productivity

SHEEP

Darren Carty

Sheep Trends: hogget quotes rebound by 20c/kg

Sheep mart prices: hogget prices rise by €3 to €8 per head

Darren Carty

Sheep mart prices: hogget prices rise by €3 to €8 per head

Sheep Management: SIS new entrants, tetany and creep feeding

Darren Carty

Sheep Management: SIS new entrants, tetany and creep feeding

Four lambs put down after dog attack in Kildare

Noel Bardon

Four lambs put down after dog attack in Kildare

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Nitrates derogation calculator

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FINANCE

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ANIMAL HEALTH

Darren Carty

Worrying increase in calves with BVD

The recent results of the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) National Eradication Programme paint a worrying picture with a significant jump in the number of BVD-positive calves identified.

James Hanly

Longford students launch product to assist with dosing cattle

Idea for product was developed after one of the girls noticed her father struggling to manage both a dosing gun and a bottle while treating cattle.

PEDIGREE

Nevan McKiernan

Simmental bull sets new breed record at Dungannon

Nevan McKiernan reports on the show and sale of Simmental bulls and heifers at Dungannon Farmers Mart.

Nevan McKiernan

Red hot trade for Limousin bulls at Roscrea

Nevan McKiernan reports on the Premier Limousin show and sale, which took place at Central Auctions, Roscrea, on Saturday.

SPONSORED

Getting through the first SBLAS audit

Damien Murray, Origin Green Producer Liaison & Standard Co-Coordinator gives a step by step guide for new suckler members of SBLAS facing their first audit.

SPONSORED

Technology for Profit: high standards with efficiency in mind

Brendan and Ciarán Brady, Cootehill, Co Cavan, exemplify how two generations can work together to maximise both the efficiency and profitability of a family-run dairy farm.

SPONSORED

EASYFIX launches revolutionary slurry aeration system - ePulse

Suitable for existing and new tanks - 60% TAMS approved. Agitates slurry. Improves safety. Enhances nutrients.

SPONSORED

Meath’s green fields inspired Mark to pursue career to protect the environment

Former Meath hurler and senior engineer Mark O’Sullivan is part of a team working to bring more renewables on to the electricity grid.

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AGRIBUSINESS

Lorcan Roche Kelly

Dairygold seeks 1c/l in cost savings

Co-op announces the implementation of its business optimisation programme.

Factory selling price not keeping up with cattle price

Phelim O'Neill

Factory selling price not keeping up with cattle price

Factories are getting more for beef they sell but prices not rising as fast as cattle prices.

Noel Bardon

Dairygold to reduce workforce as it targets €14m in cost cuts

The co-op's board has approved a cost-cutting plan drafted on foot of a 2024 efficiency and competitiveness review.

Fall forecast for Argentine beef exports in 2025

Phelim O'Neill

Fall forecast for Argentine beef exports in 2025

After a record performance last year, a drop in beef export volumes from Argentina is forecast for 2025 by USDA

TILLAGE

Grain Trends: steady markets as production estimated up

Siobhán Walsh

Grain Trends: steady markets as production estimated up

Tillage Management: planting, fertiliser and disease control

Siobhán Walsh

Tillage Management: planting, fertiliser and disease control

Siobhán Walsh

Spring planting continues

Peter Thomas Keaveney

Review: Amazone single-disc coulters offers top-class accuracy

SPONSORED

Sustainability progress on Irish farms

Origin Green sustainability and data analytics manager Dr Eleanor Murphy reports on Irish farm emissions.

MACHINERY

Trimble launches technology to enhance RTK GNSS signal

Peter Thomas Keaveney

Trimble launches technology to enhance RTK GNSS signal

Trimble and PTx Trimble have announced the availability of Trimble IonoGuard, which is designed to improve RTK GNSS positioning performance during solar storm events.

Peter Thomas Keaveney

Young Stock Podcast: 24-year-old contractor on setting up his own business

On this week’s Young Stock Podcast, Peter Thomas Keaveney speaks with Tipperary native Kelum Harrington, who left school at 15 and is now running his own sizeable agricultural contracting business.

Gary Abbott

Massey to prototype hydrogen powered tractor by 2026

Peter Thomas Keaveney

Amazone sales down 10.4% in 2024

Peter Thomas Keaveney

Yanmar launches new electrification unit for machinery

SPONSORED

New quad bike regulations - are you ready?

Quad bikes are designed to cope with a wide variety of terrain types and so are a fantastic aid for farm work - by Ciaran Roche, FBD risk manager.

PROPERTY

Paul Mooney

Large farm for sale in scenic Wicklow

The holding comes with a traditional, two-storey farmhouse and a large farmyard.

Paul Mooney

Ready-to-go dairy farm in Cork

This is an opportunity to purchase a modern dairy farm. The house can be sold separately or with the farm.

Paul Mooney

‘Different types of buyers’ will be interested in lots in Co Kildare

The land is in one block but divides naturally into a number of parcels.

BUILDINGS

Martin Merrick

Getting value for money with farm buildings

When given quotes of farm buildings, some may or may not include a quote for concrete. Martin Merrick details how to make up concrete costs for your farm project.

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT

‘Guts of a year’ to draw up Nature Restoration Law plan

Noel Bardon

‘Guts of a year’ to draw up Nature Restoration Law plan

There is just one year to set out how Ireland will meet the targets laid out in the EU Nature Restoration Law.

Noel Bardon

Ball rolling on consultation for key nature restoration law plan

Minister of State Christopher O’Sullivan said there are examples of schemes already in play which will inform the approach taken to nature restoration.

RENEWABLES

Stephen Robb

Permission refused for AD plant in Dublin after approval lapses

Country Crest, which has now appealed the decision, had originally secured planning approval for an anaerobic digestion plant on the site in 2012, but this lapsed in 2023.

Locals left in the dark over gas power plant plans

Stephen Robb

Locals left in the dark over gas power plant plans

Residents in Kentstown, Meath, feel they have been left in the dark about proposals for a new 180MW gas-fired power plant and have vowed to fight it, Stephen Robb Reports

FORESTRY

Forest owners should maximise the salvage value of trees – Minister

Amy Forde

Forest owners should maximise the salvage value of trees – Minister

The Minister encouraged all stakeholders in the selling and buying of timber to engage constructively to ensure that the prices agreed are transparent.