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Dairy
Watch: farmer delivers triplet calves on Tipperary farm
Rachel Donovan
The three Angus calves were a nice touch to mark Mother's Day on White's family farm in Mullinahone.
9 April 2025 News
Beef prices could be hit by new TB proposals
The proposed changes will reduce competition for cows in the marts and could ultimately impact beef prices.
9 April 2025 News
New Zealand’s trade ethos similar to that of Europe
Hamish Marr, New Zealand’s special agricultural trade envoy, is a fifth-generation mixed arable farmer from Methven in the South Island of New Zealand. He met with Jack Kennedy this week.
Man previously guilty of cattle theft assaulted sister in row over land
In the witness box, Mr O’Brien (50) of Prospect House, Scarriff, admitted to shoving his sister into a roadside whitethorn bush that cut her ear and her arm. Gordon Deegan reports.
4 April 2025 News
Farmer Writes: old cow for the hard road and calf for the bottle
The ruthlessness of nature revealed itself at the weekend as one of the more experienced campaigners in Tommy Moyles' suckler herd put herself first.
2 April 2025 Farmer Writes
Small but mighty in suckler heartland
Despite it being a compact holding, Cathal Irwin isn’t letting his small farm size hold him back in terms of performance, writes Martin Merrick.
2 April 2025 Beef breeding
Star ratings a celestial headache
The distance between the breed societies and the ICBF could best be measured in light years, but there is an urgent need for the gap to be bridged.
2 April 2025 Dealer
Red-hot prices for dairy stock in marts
The strength of the trade was illustrated in Carnew Mart this week, where a dairy clearance sale saw an average of €2,775/head paid for freshly calved heifers.
2 April 2025 News
Dairy farmers advised to convert to sucklers
The advisory and research body said it was making the announcement on the back of the beef price boom.
1 April 2025 News
Agri jobs: manager required for Galway farm calving over 200 cows
There are a number of job on offer across the dairy industry this week.
29 March 2025 News
Department TB rationale and funding proposals are ‘shambolic’ – IFA
The proposals, including herds with multiple TB reactors being unable to sell cows freely for three years after being deemed clear of the disease, were put to the TB forum meeting on Wednesday.
28 March 2025 News
Hoping grass will ‘spring forward’ like the clocks this week
With growth on the lower side, second-round grazing will be determined by the cover on the first grazed paddocks, write Thomas Condon.
26 March 2025 Grass & feeding