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Macra na Feirme announces a rebrand
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Macra is now the new name from Macra na Feirme.
28 September 2022 Farm machinery
Clever Agri debut selection of new sprayers
Clever Agri Components debuted several new sprayers at the Ploughing including two of its own designed small trailed sprayers and a large trailed high-end French-built Arland sprayer.
28 September 2022 News
Ploughing 2022 highlights: SlurryKat macerator
SlurryKat used this year’s Ploughing to showcase its new in-house-built slurry macerator.
Farmers have greatest need of Samaritans' services
Loneliness and isolation have seen an increase in calls from farmers to mental health charity Samaritans.
28 September 2022 News
Macra no Feirme
Macra rebrands at the National Ploughing Championships 2022.
28 September 2022 News
Was a Budget-day fiasco avoided at the Ploughing?
Intense discussions in Rathensika might have fixed a problem that would have excluded most farmers from the energy support scheme
28 September 2022 Dealer
My Farming Week: Ryan Gibbons, Killola, Rosscahill, Co Galway
Galway suckler farmer Ryan Gibbons says the Salers breed has given him that peace of mind while working off farm during calving and rears a heavy weanling with low inputs.
28 September 2022 News
Carthy eyes agriculture role by next Ploughing
Sinn Féin’s agriculture spokesperson has eyes on the prize as he hopes for the future nod as Minister for Agriculture.
28 September 2022 News
Demand soars for Green Cert courses
The number of women completing the Green Cert has seen an increase of 4%.
28 September 2022 News
Farmers urged to complete crime survey
Criminology lecturers Nicola Hughes and Matt Bowden from Technological University Dublin are the authors of the farm crime survey.
28 September 2022 News
Rising material costs hit farmer demand for sheds
Farmer demand for new sheds is low, although some work is being carried out extending existing facilities.
28 September 2022 Buildings
Farmer views on ACRES: 'I don't think I'd make enough money out of it'
Farmers at the National Ploughing Championships told the Irish Farmers Journal whether or not they were planning on joining the new flagship agri-environmental scheme, ACRES.
28 September 2022 News