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Farmer Writes: hay shed ripped asunder
Karen McCabe
Travelling anywhere on the roads shows just how extreme the wind was, with fallen/broken trees everywhere and buildings damaged.
24 January 2025 News
Storm Éowyn photos: what sort of damage was done on your farm?
Send us in any photos of the damage on your farm in the aftermath of storm Éowyn.
18 December 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: a battle with front loader
Karen McCabe walked slap bang into the edge of the scoop on the front loader where she learned that head wounds do indeed bleed rather profusely.
Acute shortage of hay as supplies tighten
Local traders confirmed that supplies of Irish hay and haylage were extremely tight and getting tighter.
11 December 2024 News
'The biggest problem coming for us is the wolf,' says Austrian farmer
“There were no wolves here for 200 years. The iron curtain opened up due to political changes, and since then the wolves are coming from the east." Claire McCormack reports.
27 November 2024 Feature
Traditional hay milk farming makes a profitable comeback in Austria
While Johann Schinwald farms using the traditional Austrian hay milk method, he has invested in modern technology to make this work. Claire McCormack reports.
20 November 2024 Feature
Moving from sheep to low input sucklers
Reno and Nic Renison run a low input upland farm in the north of England.
30 October 2024 Northern Ireland
Farmer Writes: resilient suckler farmers
There’s an enormous amount of resilience in suckler farmers (this could also be termed stubbornness) and year after year we do what we can with what we’ve got.
11 September 2024 Farmer Writes
Time to complete a fodder budget
Adam Woods takes a look at fodder budgeting and how drystock farmers can complete a simple fodder budget ahead of the winter.
4 September 2024 Management
Home Farm: Catching up over the weekend
We may also have to accept that we may run out of weather in the autumn and simply be prepared to leave some land until the land dries out in spring.
21 August 2024 Viewpoints
The Olympics need more farm sports
If beach volleyball can make it to the Olympics, surely there is an argument for including the piking of hay bales or even picking stones.
7 August 2024 Dealer