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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

Camera at the Mart: demand for ewes with lambs in Tuam

Darren Carty

Camera at the Mart: demand for ewes with lambs in Tuam

The best trade on the evening was for good-quality ewes with lambs, ewe hoggets for breeding and fleshed cull ewes.

Sheep mart prices: trade unchanged for lambs and hoggets

Darren Carty

Sheep mart prices: trade unchanged for lambs and hoggets

All classes of sheep are steady, with keen demand for ewe hoggets and ewes with lambs at foot.

Tommy Moyles

Camera at the Mart: great demand for beef calves in Tullow

It's an exciting time given where current beef prices are, but Tullow Mart manager Eric Driver said the onus is on the wider beef industry to ensure farmers buying calves now are rewarded.

PODCASTS

VIDEO HUB

BEEF

Why farmers should be wary of old car batteries and paint tins

Amy Forde

Why farmers should be wary of old car batteries and paint tins

The Grass Week: weekend rain should help hold growth

Martin Merrick

The Grass Week: weekend rain should help hold growth

Noel Bardon

ICMSA wants ‘speedy turnaround’ on ‘improved’ TB proposals

Nevan McKiernan

British and Irish Aberdeen Angus youths excel at World Competition

FARM PROGRAMMES

SUSTAINABILITY

BEEF

DAIRY

SHEEP

DAIRY

Aidan Brennan

Dairy management: take grassland management one week at a time

Current growth rates remain good, writes Aidan Brennan, who says that farmers should manage grass based on current conditions and not to build covers expecting a drought.

Amy Forde

Why farmers should be wary of old car batteries and paint tins

Car batteries, old lead paint tins and bonfire ash can be sources of lead which can lead to livestock being poisoned.

Martin Merrick

The Grass Week: weekend rain should help hold growth

Noel Bardon

ICMSA wants ‘speedy turnaround’ on ‘improved’ TB proposals

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

Lamb dies of copper poisoning from cattle feed

James Hanly

Lamb dies of copper poisoning from cattle feed

Amy Forde

Why farmers should be wary of old car batteries and paint tins

Darren Carty

Shearfest 2025 gets a European makeover

James Hanly

Donegal sheep and tillage farmer to host nature farm walk

KNOWLEDGE HUB

LIVESTOCK

Crop Protection

LIVESTOCK

Nitrates derogation calculator

LIVESTOCK

Mart Price Calculator

FINANCE

BPS calculator

ANIMAL HEALTH

Noel Bardon

‘Crude’ and ‘unnecessary’ elements of new TB plans must be dropped - IFA

The IFA has identified a set of proposed TB measures it said must be amended by the minister and his department.

Amy Forde

Minister plans to move quickly to introduce new TB measures

Minister Heydon held an emergency TB summit with farm organisations and other stakeholders on Thursday.

PEDIGREE

Nevan McKiernan

British and Irish Aberdeen Angus youths excel at World Competition

Young Angus enthusiasts from Ireland and the UK took part in the World Angus Youth Competition in Australia this week, writes Nevan McKiernan.

Nevan McKiernan

Future stars get show season underway

The 2025 future stars of the show ring took place in Golden Vale Mart, Tullamore, on Sunday 27 April, writes Nevan McKiernan.

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

Amy Forde

Tirlán appoints new board members

Kildare dairy farmer and chartered accountant join the Tirlán board following the co-op's AGM.

Record Australian beef exports for April

Phelim O'Neill

Record Australian beef exports for April

Australian beef exports in a golden age with no negative impact of Trump tariffs so far .

US says UK trade deal includes beef exports

Lorcan Roche Kelly

US says UK trade deal includes beef exports

US Trade Secretary says deal opens access to UK market for US beef.

FBD has settled almost two-thirds of customer claims from Éowyn

Lorcan Roche Kelly

FBD has settled almost two-thirds of customer claims from Éowyn

Meeting of shareholders of insurer hears update on trading for the year to date.

TILLAGE

Siobhán Walsh

Keeping spring barley clean with T1 fungicide

Siobhán Walsh

Tillage podcast: rust, rules and plant protection products

Siobhán Walsh

Grain Trends: markets fall further

Tillage Management: low disease pressure and spraying weather

Siobhán Walsh

Two- and three-crop rules must go, says tillage group

SPONSORED

Sustainability progress on Irish farms

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

MACHINERY

Blaney to launch farmer innovation programme at Balmoral Show

Gary Abbott

Blaney to launch farmer innovation programme at Balmoral Show

The Blaney Group is returning to Balmoral Show to launch its new innovator programme to encourage the public to share new ideas and be in with a chance to secure £50,000 worth of investment.

Kubota adds value line steering to guidance portfolio

Peter Thomas Keaveney

Kubota adds value line steering to guidance portfolio

Kubota has introduced an entry-level auto-steer package called 'value line steering' for its agricultural and ground care machinery.

Peter Thomas Keaveney

Lemken precision planter busy sowing maize in the premier county

Gary Abbott

Row spraying cuts veg grower's spray use by up to 60%

Gary Abbott

New Holland TM 120 makes €76,120 at auction

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

Pristine cattle shed comes with Navan holding

Cattle farmers will be interested in this parcel of land which is in a good location and soon heading for auction.

Paul Mooney

Sunset House shines bright with equestrian yard for €1.25m in Co Meath

This property includes a five bedroomed house of just over 2,000 sq. ft.

Paul Mooney

Tillage land in the sunny south-east going for auction later this month

This farm will be offered for sale at a public auction in a number of lots.

BUILDINGS

Is a new small scale dairy now viable to create?

Martin Merrick

Is a new small scale dairy now viable to create?

Martin Merrick highlights some of the infrastructure costs to setting up a new dairy enterprise, and if it’s a runner at all.

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT

Noel Bardon

Almost €18m allocated to new farm sustainability EIPs

There will be 11 new pilot projects focused on farming and the environment running over four or five years.

James Hanly

Government purchases 6ha corncrake breeding site in Belmullet

The 5.75ha site will provide protection and a sustainable food source for corncrakes.

RENEWABLES

Amy Forde

Irish Farmers Journal wins gold at Media Awards

The Irish Farmers Journal team won gold at the Media Awards on Thursday night in Dublin.

Construction starts on Ørsted’s second Irish solar farm

Stephen Robb

Construction starts on Ørsted’s second Irish solar farm

Global energy giant Ørsted has started to build its second Irish solar farm in Cork, which will generate 55MW of electricity once operational.

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”.