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Farmer Writes: difficult calvings and staggering Bob
This week Tommy Moyles looks at difficult calvings on the home farm and concerns about calf sales.
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Farmer Writes: the Brexit bus battles on and the driver has no control
A bout of mastitis and the Brexit bus battles on, writes Joe Collingborn.
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UK body seeking permission to trial genetically modified potatoes
GM trials will be the first in the UK in four years and will focus on genes which confer the resistance to late blight and improved tuber quality.
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Heiferlac is the milk replacer of choice on award-winning dairy farm
Award winning dairy farmer Darran McKenna has fed Volac Heiferlac milk replacer to his replacement heifer calves for the past three years.
In pictures: buyers for all types at Dowra sale
Livestock specialist Nathan Tuffy attended the general cattle sale in Dowra Mart to see how the trade was going.
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Brexit will create a 'new scale' of milk crisis – EDA
The European Dairy Association is the representative body of dairy processors in the European Union.
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Dairy management: looking after cows in early lactation
The last 10 days have been tough on cows, with a resultant loss in body condition score, writes Aidan Brennan.
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Glanbia Co-op to pay €10.9m Trading Bonus to Members
Glanbia Co-operative Society (“Glanbia Co-op”) has confirmed that a total of €10.9 million will be paid to milk supplier Members of the Co-op this month as part of its 2018 Trading Bonus Scheme.
Listen: best farmers 'pushing the limit' of climate efficiency
The best dairy, beef and sheep farmers in Ireland are among those going as low as we can go in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from production – but there is still room for progress, the FAO says.
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Heiferlac is the milk replacer of choice on award-winning dairy farm
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Valio increased their whey and milk powder production by 10%
Valio Oy is the largest producer of dairy products in Finland. In order to increase production, they installed NAPCON Controller to their whey powder production line in Lapinlahti in 2013.
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Darren Carty and Tommy Heffernan sit down with Lambing Live's sponsors Cormac Tagging - to discuss the new EID tags for sheep and the grant available.
Beef editor Adam Woods reports from Tullamore Farm where calving season is in full flight.
A new calf shed has just been completed in Co Galway and has been fitted out with the new Evolution automatic calf feeder along with 42 individual calf pens.
John Egerton has looked at the possibility of milking cows on his Fermanagh farm.
Co Louth farmer Finian Mathews tells Thomas Hubert how he thinks dairy and beef farmers could collaborate to produce beef more cheaply and with a lower climate impact.
Darren Carty along with Tommy Boland and PhD researcher Jonathan Higgins show how to stomach tube a lamb and why it is done.
Darren Carty discusses what research UCD is carrying out at present in the area of grassland.
Darren Carty and Tommy Heffernan of the Irish Farmers Journal in conversation with Tommy Boland and Paddy Wall on the state of sheep markets and where lamb fits in in current markets.
Tommy Heffernan speaking with Marijke Beltman and Michael Doherty at #LambingLive2019 on the topics of AMR in flocks and disease management.
Odile Evans speaks to Alex Evans, Michael Doherty and Alan Jagoe at #LambingLive2019 of the industry challenges and perceptions based around agriculture.
Agri shares: Aryzta shares rally strongly on back of half-year results
Shares in Aryzta rallied this week after the bakery giant reported positive half year results.
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McCarthy Plant and Agri celebrate 25th anniversary
McCarthy's Plant and Agri Sales celebrated 25 years in business. Peter Thomas Keaveney reports.
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Claas offers new features in iPad ISOBUS control app
Claas has introduced new features to its iPad ISOBUS control app Claas Easy. The app now sees the ISOBUS Task Controller Basic (TC BAS) function.
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No deadline for Boortmalt contract until deal is confirmed - IFA
There has been no confirmation from Boortmalt that the deadline has been extended.
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Crop protection company Life Scientific opens new HQ in Dublin
The Irish crop protection company specialises in bringing off-patent products to the market and recently moved into their new state of the art laboratories and office in Dublin.
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