• The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is appealing for witnesses and anyone with any information to come forward after 43 lambs were stolen in Co Derry.
  • Green Cert courses are facing the axe in Sligo and Letrim, allegedly down to a lack of staff, according to Eamon Scanlon, Fianna Fáil TD for Sligo-Leitrim.
  • All members of Aryzta’s executive management team including CEO Owen Killian and Patrick McEniff, chief financial officer and chief operating officer, along with John Yamin, CEO of the Americas, have tendered their resignations.
  • A lamb born without any eyes on Ashleigh Fennell’s farm in Co Carlow looks set to become a pet on the farm.
  • And Seamus Fagan presented the results of a wide-scale sheep mortality study at last week’s Teagasc lowland sheep conferences.
  • Photo of the day courtesy of the Irish Farmers Journal picture desk

    George Beattie, Manor Kilbride, Blessington, Co Wicklow, on his farm at the start of lambing season for this week’s My Farming Week.