Weather forecast

Today will be dry again for the bulk of the country. Good sunshine during the morning, but cloud will tend to increase from the west in the afternoon and patchy rain will affect southwest Munster and Connacht towards evening. Highs of 16°C to 19°C with southerly winds continuing to freshen through the day.

In the news

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  • Ornua, Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products, has entered into a partnership agreement with Tesco to adopt the UN Sustainable Development Goal to halve food waste by 2030.
  • Arla is developing fizzy milk at its global innovation centre in Aarhus in Denmark in a bid to identify new trends in dairy.
  • The stockbull finder is a new bull sales section on the ICBF website that is exclusive to bulls from Whole Herd Performance Recording herds that have been weighed and scored.
  • A farmer is appealing for information after three of his heifers were stolen from a field last week.
  • Watch and listen: Tommy Moyles met with hill sheep farmers at a Kerry fair that has been running since the 18th century.
  • David Davies, the UK government minister in charge of Brexit negotiations, arrived in Brussels this afternoon to commence the fourth round of negotiations.

    • Coming up on www.farmersjournal.ie

  • Reaction from the fourth round of Brexit negotiations.
  • The latest from BETTER farm programme participants.

    • What’s on today

  • Irish Montbeliarde Society open day, Coolelan, Rathangan, Co Kildare, 11.30am.

    • To find out more about events near you, visit our agri-events calendar.