LATEST ARTICLES
News
Farmer Writes: the scale of farms in Canada
Contributor
On the way back from the mountains we stopped in where we saw three Case combines with 40 foot headers cutting canola in a 305ac field.
18 September 2024 Farmer Writes
Wet August has had a lasting impact
August was a tough month to keep cows at grass, writes Castlederg dairy farmer Jessica Pollock.
18 September 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: weekends aren't what they used to be
A chance log in to his agfood was a bit of a wake up call last weekend.
Farmer Writes: resilient suckler farmers
There’s an enormous amount of resilience in suckler farmers (this could also be termed stubbornness) and year after year we do what we can with what we’ve got.
11 September 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: spring barley set to be our harvest saviour
Good old spring barley, I thought to myself from the combine seat, it’s an unlikely saviour, but it will be the crop of the harvest, writes Gerald Potterton.
11 September 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: the trials of dairy farming
The desktop management from Westminster still continues to alarm me, writes Joe Collingborn.
8 September 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: visiting a 6,000ac farm in Canada
Padraig Callanan visits a farm in Canada where the cows are milked three times per day, at 4am, 12pm and 8pm, in a 12 unit double up, rapid exit parlour.
4 September 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: trip to Tipp got me thinking
A discussion group visit to the Teagasc dairy calf to beef farm in Tipperary got Tommy Moyles wondering how it fits into the future of Irish farming.
4 September 2024 Farmer Writes
Much to admire in 'Plough On' project
Derek Robinson spoke to a group who came to his home-town as part of a day trip organised by Rural Support.
4 September 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: cattle housed in August
At first the cows were rather indignant at being taken indoors so early in the year, writes Karen McCabe.
28 August 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: what a dreary, dragged-out harvest this is
Gerald Potterton casts back to when he was just after getting married and was doing up his house.
28 August 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: Dealing with the present and planning for the future
Scanning results are in for the heifers on Tommy Moyles' farm at Ardfield, Clonakilty while the consequences of the weather mean decisions regarding grazing keep changing.
21 August 2024 Farmer Writes