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LATEST NEWS
Anne O'Donoghue
Tillage survival scheme needed now - IFA
IFA president Francie Gorman said new figures from the CSO on falling cereal production shows that a new tillage support scheme is needed.
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Anne O'Donoghue
Irish livestock hauliers targeted with fines in Cherbourg - ICSA
EDITORIAL
Jack Kennedy
Weather boost mentally positive
Positivity mixed with unknowns needs leadership
The 2023 results do nothing to recognise what is happening at farm level as the rug is being pulled from under farmers.
SPONSORED
'Everything is connected': protecting future generations with farming techniques
Rising temperatures, endless droughts and devastating floods – an unrelenting cycle of extreme weather is pushing communities in Malawi into deadly hunger.
VIEWPOINTS
Positivity mixed with unknowns needs leadership
Jack Kennedy
Jack Kennedy
Colm McCarthy: how many airports is enough?
Colm McCarthy
Colm McCarthy
Home Farm: drying out at last
Matt Dempsey
Matt Dempsey
Dempsey at Large: food, fuel and fibre
Matt Dempsey
Matt Dempsey
FARMER WRITES
Farmer Writes: suckler farmers a rare breed
Karen McCabe
Farmer Writes: suckler farmers a rare breed
If our weather is going to continue to be as unpredictable as it has been in the last couple of years, the winter is going to be more of a slog than ever
Farmer Writes: biblical rain ceases at last
Gerald Potterton
Farmer Writes: biblical rain ceases at last
I’ll never be remembered for a field of cattle or wheat, but I do hope, in a time to come, I may be remembered by my trees writes Gerald Potterton.
Tommy Moyles
Farmer Writes: adaption continues as rain eases
e-Learning
John Egerton
Seven months' fodder to beat a late spring
'Everything is connected': protecting future generations with farming techniques SPONSORED
'Everything is connected': protecting future generations with farming techniques
Rising temperatures, endless droughts and devastating floods – an unrelenting cycle of extreme weather is pushing communities in Malawi into deadly hunger.
DEALER
Changes at ICBF board
Will there be more changes and more of a suckler focus on the ICBF board? Time will tell.
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The Dealer
Keeping the neighbours guessing
The Dealer
Third time lucky for Longford Ploughing
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FARM SAFETY
Contributor
Pesticides protect your crops; do you protect yourself from pesticides?
Dr Edward Straw, a researcher at Trinity College Dublin warns all pesticide users to wear the right safety kit.
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'Everything is connected': protecting future generations with farming techniques
Rising temperatures, endless droughts and devastating floods – an unrelenting cycle of extreme weather is pushing communities in Malawi into deadly hunger.
FORESTRY
Declan O’Brien
Opposition to Mayo forestry planting by French firm
Coillte to buy new lands in a ‘responsible way’
Coillte is planning on growing its base by 100,000ha of new forestry over the coming decades.
Donal Magner
Construction group promoting homegrown timber
PIG AND POULTRY
Largest egg producer in US culls 1.5m birds due to bird flu
Niamh Murphy
Largest egg producer in US culls 1.5m birds due to bird flu
One of the Unites States' largest egg producers has had to cull over 1.5m birds as a result of bird flu.
Industrial emissions directive targets small poultry and pig farmers - IFA
Amy Forde
Industrial emissions directive targets small poultry and pig farmers - IFA
Without an amendment, the directive would bring very small pig and poultry units into a scenario where they needed a full EPA licence, the IFA warned.
Adam Woods
Biosecurity in broiler and layer flocks – prevention is better than outbreaks
e-Learning
Amy Forde
Ireland’s poultry sector commits to lowering emissions in new roadmap
Amy Forde
€40m for Dutch poultry business to hatch female-only chicks