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Tillage
Spraying and spreading in difficult conditions
Conor Kehoe
This week, Conor Kehoe talks to farmers in Tipperary, Down, and Westmeath as growers try to get up to date on winter crops.
23 March 2024 News
Top quality land heading for €18,000/ac in Westmeath
There was a significant increase in the amount of land for sale compared to 2022.
20 March 2024 For Sale
Online auction for Westmeath land
A roadside non-residential farm in Westmeath will be sold by online auction in early April. The farm has ample frontage onto the R390 road, writes Tommy Moyles.
Renewables roadshow set for April
The Irish Farmers Journal is hosting a new renewables roadshow throughout the month of April, aimed at outlining how farmers can save money and create a new income stream through renewable energy.
20 March 2024 News
My Farming Week: David Fay, Rathnamuddagh, Mullingar, Co Westmeath
David Fay is organic farming since last year with his family in Westmeath.
20 March 2024 News
Agri jobs: full-time positions on pig and dairy farms
Dairy farm assistants are in high demand, along with an opportunity for a pig farm assistant in the midlands.
16 March 2024 News
Watch: farms covered in a blanket of snow
A yellow weather warning for snow and ice is in place for nine counties.
1 March 2024 News
My Farming Week: Amelda Middleton Leonard, Moate, Co Westmeath
Amelda has recently been appointed as president of the Irish Shorthorn Society and runs her own herd of suckler cattle in Westmeath.
31 January 2024 News
Ireland's first full shipment of in-calf heifers arrives in Algeria
Westmeath company Cows.ie has completed the export of 1,021 in-calf pedigree Holstein heifers to Algeria, which marks Irelands first ever full shipment of livestock to the North African country.
24 January 2024 News
Co Westmeath farm makes an impressive €650,000 at auction
A farm on the outskirts of Kilbeggan with gravel deposits went under the hammer in early December selling at the higher side of its pre-sale guide price, writes Tommy Moyles.
10 January 2024 Sales results
Young Stock Podcast: milking cows and setting milk price
On this week's Young Stock Podcast, Amy Forde speaks to dairy farmer Aisling Neville about milking cows and setting milk price at Lakeland Dairies.
25 December 2023 Podcast
40ac farm in the centre of Ireland
Westmeath holding comes with a large cattle shed and open concrete yard area, writes Paul Mooney.
13 December 2023 Property