• A Monaghan farmer was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence for handling stolen cattle.
  • There has been a building boom in yards, with farmers driving a shed surge.
  • With beef prices improving, Ireland is now ahead of the EU average.
  • The Department of Agriculture has given the Irish Farmers Journal the reasons why 3,100 GLAS farmers have not yet been paid.

    • Last month was the driest April in Mullingar since records began there in 1950.

    Photo of the day

    Here is our photo of the day, courtesy of the Irish Farmers Journal picture desk:

    Rapeseed oil crop near Bellewstown, Co Meath. Ramona Farrelly