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Farm Tech Talk: storm Éowyn, lambing and milk price
Jack Kennedy
Hear the latest advice from the team on this week's Farm Tech Talk show.
31 January 2025 News
News Podcast: storm Éowyn fallout, succession and rural crime
On this week’s podcast, the news team discusses the ongoing fallout from storm Éowyn, the issue of delayed succession and hears about a rural crime spree in Tipperary.
31 January 2025 News
Weekend weather: mostly dry with cold overnight temperatures
Met Éireann has forecast a mostly dry weekend, with some drizzle and freezing temperatures overnight.
Tillage Podcast: pesticide reductions, diesel use and EU on tillage
This week’s tillage podcast hears from a number of guests, has all the news and grain and weather reports.
30 January 2025 News
Farmer Writes: hay shed ripped asunder
Travelling anywhere on the roads shows just how extreme the wind was, with fallen/broken trees everywhere and buildings damaged.
29 January 2025 Farmer Writes
Farms get a battering by storm Éowyn
John Egerton reckons he got off fairly lightly compared to some neighbouring farms.
29 January 2025 Northern Ireland
Storm Éowyn: vegetable growers who ‘lost everything’ left with big repair costs
The Irish Farmers Journal spoke to two vegetable producers who have seen their enterprises badly affected from high winds and fallen trees during storm Éowyn.
28 January 2025 News
Shed roof blown away and no power as calving kicks off on Clare dairy farm
West Clare dairy farmer Niall Reidy speaks to Anne O’Donoghue about damage to his farm from storm Éowyn and how he is coping coming into the busiest time of the year with no power.
28 January 2025 Feature
Galway farmer loses 30ac of forestry following storm Éowyn
This Galway farmer woke up last Friday morning to 30ac of his 80ac forest lying flat.
28 January 2025 News
EU sending 13 energy generators with further four to follow
The energy generators come from the Commission's own reserves and from supplies in Denmark.
28 January 2025 News
Forest damage could exceed storm Darwin and hurricane Charley
The extent of the losses will only become apparent in the coming days and weeks.
28 January 2025 News
Area of fallow almost tripled in three years
The area of fallow increased in 2024. Wet weather and delayed planting probably played a role in this.
28 January 2025 News