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Elatus™ Era: providing consistent disease control across key crops

The weather in spring and early summer has been generally favourable to crop growth and development, a complete contrast to 2024.

MART REPORTS

Sheep mart prices: factory pressure hitting live sales

Darren Carty

Sheep mart prices: factory pressure hitting live sales

Hogget prices are under pressure in marts, with agents standoffish and much coyer in their purchasing activity.

Camera at the Mart: boom year for calves in Tipperary Mart

Tommy Moyles

Camera at the Mart: boom year for calves in Tipperary Mart

Tipperary Mart held its final calf sale of what has been a boom year for calves for the Tipperary town sales venue and trade was extremely strong throughout proceedings.

Martbids Database: light weanlings head for €6/kg

Adam Woods

Martbids Database: light weanlings head for €6/kg

Adam Woods has the latest on this week’s mart trade, including what’s happening in the country’s marts.

PODCASTS

VIDEO HUB

BEEF

Nevan McKiernan

Cattle breed championships from day one in Balmoral

James Hanly

TB summit feedback must be ‘taken seriously’ - ICSA

James Hanly

CAP simplification could ‘unlock’ TB funding – MEP

Adam Woods

Beef prices turn a corner

FARM PROGRAMMES

SUSTAINABILITY

BEEF

DAIRY

SHEEP

DAIRY

Replacements ‘nowhere near sufficient’ to sustain dairy herd – IFA

It comes after the publication of the latest ICBF dairy stock statistics coinciding with the middle of peak breeding season.

James Hanly

TB summit feedback must be ‘taken seriously’ - ICSA

The association’s animal health and welfare chair John Barron said that farmers must be recognised as key stakeholders in this process, not as passive recipients of policy.

James Hanly

CAP simplification could ‘unlock’ TB funding – MEP

Aidan Brennan

Dairy Trends: skim milk powder finally moves upwards

SPONSORED

Using rumen-protected fat to support fertility and milk fat at turnout

Rumen-protected fats provide energy without acid to help stabilise rumen conditions while also supporting fertility and milk fat production.

SHEEP

Darren Carty

Sheep Trends: further pressure on hoggets

EU regulation curtailing live sheep exports

Darren Carty

EU regulation curtailing live sheep exports

Darren Carty

Sheep mart prices: factory pressure hitting live sales

Sheep management: weather management and marketing lambs/hoggets

Darren Carty

Sheep management: weather management and marketing lambs/hoggets

KNOWLEDGE HUB

LIVESTOCK

Crop Protection

LIVESTOCK

Nitrates derogation calculator

LIVESTOCK

Mart Price Calculator

FINANCE

BPS calculator

ANIMAL HEALTH

James Hanly

TB summit feedback must be ‘taken seriously’ - ICSA

The association’s animal health and welfare chair John Barron said that farmers must be recognised as key stakeholders in this process, not as passive recipients of policy.

James Hanly

Shortage of large animal vets in rural Ireland - Veterinary Council

However, the statutory body regulating veterinary medicine in Ireland found that the veterinary register has grown by 30% since 2004.

PEDIGREE

Nevan McKiernan

Nobber to kick-start show season in the northeast

Nobber Agricultural Show is set to take place on Sunday 18 May.

Nevan McKiernan

Overdose sons take Carlisle by storm

Irish Genetics were to the fore at the recent show and sale at Borderway Mart, Carlisle.

SPONSORED

Getting through the first SBLAS audit

Damien Murray, Origin Green Producer Liaison & Standard Co-Coordinator gives a step by step guide for new suckler members of SBLAS facing their first audit.

SPONSORED

Levelling up calf rearing with Teemore Mono Calf Building

Proper calf shed ventilation is crucial for maximising calf performance and profitability.

SPONSORED

Elatus™ Era: providing consistent disease control across key crops

The weather in spring and early summer has been generally favourable to crop growth and development, a complete contrast to 2024.

SPONSORED

I’m thinking of buying a mower, what would you recommend?

Conal Moore an Agri contractor & tillage framer from Ballygar Co. Galway. “we do a lot of reseeding, slurry spreading and tillage work but baling would be our main enterprise”.

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AGRIBUSINESS

Professor Luke O’Neill: future farms will have no animals

Lorcan Roche Kelly

Professor Luke O’Neill: future farms will have no animals

Trinity immunology professor made prediction on Show Me the Science podcast

Weight-loss drugs have transformed dieting

Lorcan Roche Kelly

Weight-loss drugs have transformed dieting

The once iconic WeightWatchers files for bankruptcy and Glanbia puts Slimfast on the block.

Diesel prices marginally creeping upwards

Peter Thomas Keaveney

Diesel prices marginally creeping upwards

Although it's fair to say that diesel prices remain largely stable, the market has crept upwards by 4c/l in recent days. Peter Thomas Keaveney and Gary Abbott report.

US and China take a 90-day break from trade war

Lorcan Roche Kelly

US and China take a 90-day break from trade war

Both sides slashed tariffs in the wake of weekend meetings in Geneva.

TILLAGE

Siobhán Walsh

Breaking: blackgrass declared a noxious weed

Siobhán Walsh

Grain Trends: markets fall further

Pat O'Toole

Dry conditions starting to bite crops

US trade dispute leaving whiskey sector ‘uniquely exposed’

Siobhán Walsh

Almost 1,400 farmers leave tillage sector

SPONSORED

Sustainability progress on Irish farms

Origin Green sustainability and data analytics manager Dr Eleanor Murphy reports on Irish farm emissions.

MACHINERY

Massey Ferguson introduces next-generation MF 1M series

Peter Thomas Keaveney

Massey Ferguson introduces next-generation MF 1M series

Massey Ferguson has launched two new MF 1M series premium specification compact tractor models.

Gary Abbott

Entries open for Tullamore Show invention awards

Entries have opened for Tullamore Show's national invention and innovation awards 2025, which will be broken down into seven categories, each offering a €300 first prize.

Gary Abbott

Young Stock Podcast: contracting in Banner County and tricky transmissions

Peter Thomas Keaveney

Diesel prices marginally creeping upwards

Peter Thomas Keaveney

Top tips for buying a used tedder

SPONSORED

New quad bike regulations - are you ready?

Quad bikes are designed to cope with a wide variety of terrain types and so are a fantastic aid for farm work - by Ciaran Roche, FBD risk manager.

PROPERTY

Paul Mooney

Two parcels of good cattle fattening land in Co Meath

Both have road frontage and one has a small farm shed which is in good condition.

Paul Mooney

Two gems in the Golden Vale go up for auction

One has a farmhouse and farmyard, the other has lengthy frontage on the public road.

Paul Mooney

Fine Georgian house has it all for €1.9m in west Cork

The house is in excellent condition – and so, too ,are the gate lodge, the courtyard buildings and the land.

BUILDINGS

Close to 75% of TAMS tranche 5 applications approved so far

Martin Merrick

Close to 75% of TAMS tranche 5 applications approved so far

Tranche 5, which closed for applications in early December, has seen a huge rise in approval rates over the last number of weeks.

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT

Department defends Healy-Rae on peat planting

Declan O’Brien

Department defends Healy-Rae on peat planting

The Department of Agriculture stated that it was not in favour of planting on 'deep peat sites where there is a net carbon emission'.

'GAEC 2 is a designation with a different name'

Amy Forde

'GAEC 2 is a designation with a different name'

Classifying land as GAEC 2 is a designation under a different name, a leading west Clare dairy farmer has said.

RENEWABLES

Jack Kennedy

Editorial: wind farm challenges

Are surrounding landowners sufficiently rewarded, if at all, for the land asset value reduction with these type of cluster investments?

Biogas plant approved on former Lisheen mine in Tipperary

Stephen Robb

Biogas plant approved on former Lisheen mine in Tipperary

The AD plant will process 98,000t of agricultural and waste feedstock annually to produce biomethane gas, which will be injected into the national gas grid as a replacement for natural gas.

FORESTRY

James Hanly

Ministers contradicting each other on forestry in peatland – Sinn Féin

It comes after Minister of State with responsibility for Forestry Michael Healy-Rae made comments saying that he wants to more afforestation on peatlands which Sinn Féin said is “very concerning”.

Donal Magner

The role of forestry diluted in 2025 climate plan

The current Climate Action Plan retains the need for 8,000ha annual planting programme, but 18% forest cover target and key role for afforestation were dropped.

NORTHERN IRELAND

Peter McCann

Multiple break-ins at Dundonald House

There have been multiple break-ins at DAERA’s former headquarters in Belfast over recent months.

Strong demand for breeding stock at Swatragh

Contributor

Strong demand for breeding stock at Swatragh

Natasha Ferguson reports on the prices paid at a breeding cattle sale last Friday.

IRISH COUNTRY LIVING

Comment

Editorial: ‘you may be in darkness but there will be light again'

Darkness into Light is an event of hope, the reality of suicide is horrific. I’ve cried hot tears thinking about the dark place my friend must have been in.

Life

Rural healthcare challenge needs joined up resolution

Comment

'Walking his only daughter up the aisle on her wedding day topped everything'

Finance

How to manage finances early in your career

Entertainment

Having the power but feeling skort-changed

Contributor

Dear Miriam: ‘My wife won’t live in a mobile while house is being refurbished’

A frustrated Wexford reader asks Miriam how to talk his wife into settling for a six month stay in a mobile home on the site of a farmhouse they're refurbishing into their forever home.

Paul Mooney

Two gems in the Golden Vale go up for auction

One has a farmhouse and farmyard, the other has lengthy frontage on the public road.

Paul Mooney

Fine Georgian house has it all for €1.9m in west Cork

The house is in excellent condition – and so, too ,are the gate lodge, the courtyard buildings and the land.

Paul Mooney

Two parcels of good cattle fattening land in Co Meath

Both have road frontage and one has a small farm shed which is in good condition.

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