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Farmer Writes: there is pleasure in keeping busy during the winter
Gerald Potterton
And as if we were looking for something more to do, storm Éowyn uprooted eight very large leylandii evergreen trees in the garden.
15 January 2025 News
Drainage rules to tighten for 35,000 farmers
The tighter restrictions will apply from this year on over 540,000ha of farmed peatlands and wetlands in the midlands and west.
8 January 2025 Viewpoints
Home Farm: slurry additives
Whether grazing so late in the year was the right decision, I am not sure.
Seppi gives old Christmas tree plantation new lease of life
Peter Thomas Keaveney travelled to the midlands to catch up with Ireland’s largest multifunctional tiller-mulcher, as it reclaimed 106 acres of an old Christmas tree plantation back into grassland.
30 October 2024 Farm machinery
EPA investigating suspected illegal peat extraction
The EPA has visited a number of bogs where peat extraction activities were considered to be significant and of a commercial nature.
16 October 2024 Letters
Creating water catchment ponds in Tipperary
Creating small sediment ponds is a cost-effective way to improve water quality on Barry Powell’s farm, Kelsey Daly reports.
2 October 2024 Footprint Farmers
Establishing forests with diversity for long-term CCF management
Sean Hoskins and Olive Leavy examine continuous cover forestry (CCF) principles in the approach to forest management.
18 September 2024 Forestry
Opinion: land use change rules must be changed to tackle biodiversity loss
In the context of a national biodiversity crisis, it’s not credible that farmers can remove habitats without oversight, writes Ray Ó Foghlú.
11 September 2024 Climate and environment
New action plan sets out roadmap to improve water quality
It is well past time to clean up our rivers, lakes and coasts, Minister for Nature Malcolm Noonan said.
5 September 2024 Climate and environment
Claydon launches front tank and rear toolbar combo
UK drill manufacturer, Claydon, has expanded its portfolio with the addition of the Evolution drill toolbar and front hopper combination. Gary Abbott reports.
28 August 2024 Farm machinery
Dealing with another snatch-and-grab year
There have been few opportunities for field work this summer, writes John Egerton.
28 August 2024 Northern Ireland
Are property rights being slowly eroded?
Cooley farmers are taking to the roads in opposition to a proposed greenway. The concerns they are raising are shared across the country, it seems.
28 August 2024 Dealer