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Embrace FARM launches charity Christmas jumpers
James Hanly
Embrace FARM is a support network for farm families affected by sudden death or serious injury and it currently provides a range of practical and emotional support to over 550 Irish farm families.
6 November 2024 Farm machinery
Self-taught midlands tech guru repairing all things electronic
Steve Sherwood has become a specialist in the art of repairing machine terminals and interfaces and all things electronic for the agricultural machinery sector. Fergal O’Sullivan reports.
16 October 2024 Ask Miriam
‘I’ve lost my teen daughter to her smartphone’
Caving in to demands for a smartphone by her 12-year-old daughter leaves one concerned mother asking Miriam's advice on how to restore some boundaries with technology.
Kildare farmer tracks down egg and potato thieves
Norman Dunne along with his father, Michael, run a 400ac tillage farm in Co Kildare and have been running an ‘honesty box’ style system outside their farm to sell potatoes and eggs.
9 October 2024 News
Helen Sharp: respect your elders
This week, Helen Sharp muses over the fashion of breeding, the treatment of older mares and some useful equine events
9 October 2024 Breeding
World News Day: choosing truth is essential for farmers
Irish Farmers Journal editor Jack Kennedy writes about World News Day and why truth matters.
28 September 2024 Editorial
NewsBrands Ireland urges Government to support journalism
Irish news publishers join hundreds of global news organisations in ‘Choose Truth’ campaign.
28 September 2024 News
Fraudsters targeting farmers with ‘purchase scams’ for farm machinery
That’s the message coming from the financial fraud awareness team in the Bank of Ireland tent at the National Ploughing Championships.
17 September 2024 News
Making schools a smartphone free zone
A whole school ban on smartphones has been introduced in a Co Wexford primary school in response to mounting evidence of the harmful effects of social media on young children, writes Jacqueline Hogge.
31 July 2024 Features
IFJ Junior: capturing the countryside
Young photographer Harry Ryan is a regular sight out and about capturing rural scenes and farmers working on the land.
26 June 2024 l2
Gorman resignation hoax email
The IFA president was the victim of a hoax email he had resigned over the adoption of the Nature Restoration Law, which might have alerted anyone who knows him that it was bogus
19 June 2024 Dealer
Watch: British police ram cow in ‘distressing’ video
A British police investigation is under way after members of its Surrey force rammed an animal that was running loose in a town.
16 June 2024 News