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Colm McCarthy: Ireland has a mixed legacy on climate
Colm McCarthy
In Ireland, the willingness to subsidise has unleashed an onslaught of lobbying for more, including demands that State subvention be made available for technologies as yet unproven.
23 December 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: Seasons Greetings
The year finished very well with exceptionally good ground conditions helping winter planting and autumn grazing.
23 December 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: cows housed based on calving dates
We have the cows now separated out into the three cubicle sheds according to their calving dates.
Fallen trees expected from 110km/hr gusts this weekend
The national forecaster has issued two yellow weather warnings that will bring “sustained strong and gusty westerly winds” veering north-westerly coupled with large coastal waves.
20 December 2024 News
Weekend weather: wet, windy and wintry
Met Éireann has announced a wet and wintry weekend, with lowest temperatures of 2°C.
20 December 2024 News
Tillage podcast: looking back on the tillage year
On this week’s podcast we look back at the tillage year gone by and look ahead to positives for 2025.
19 December 2024 News
Progress stalls on age at slaughter reduction
Adam Woods has a look at the most recent slaughter age figures and how progress has stalled in making further reductions.
18 December 2024 News
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.
18 December 2024 Farmer Writes
Weekend weather: cloudy and drizzly, with temperatures to rise on Sunday
Temperatures are set to increase on Sunday, with a mild 10°C to 12°C forecast by Met Éireann.
13 December 2024 News
Tillage Podcast: BYDV, US farming and Mercosur’s impact on tillage
On this week’s Tillage Podcast, Stephen Robb talks to the Irish Farmers Journal’s Pat O’Toole and Conor Kehoe and ITLUS’s Denis Dunne about Mercosur, aphids, the Rosenbohm US scholarship and much more
12 December 2024 News
ICMSA calls on milk processors to pay end-of-year bonuses
The association made the statement to support farmers against the extreme difficulties experienced over the previous 18 months.
10 December 2024 News
Examining nutrition and fungicides on beet crops
Nutrition needs to be watched in beet crops. Some crops were showing nitrogen and boron deficiency this year.
10 December 2024 News