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Camera at the Mart: farmers active for quality lots in Tuam
Tuam Co-operative Mart, Co Galway, held a show and sale of Charolais and Simmental weanlings on Monday evening, with 180 heifers and 250 bulls entered.
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196ac tillage farm for sale in Louth
Good land in one block with plenty of frontage on to main road and soils in good fertility.
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Watch: Irish casein making Mexican cheese
In this Farm Tech Talk interview, managing director of Ornua Ingredients Seamus Greene chats to Lorcan Allen about the role of Irish casein in the Mexican market.
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MartBids Database: numbers rising as shows and sales of weanlings kick off
Adam Woods takes a look at this weeks marts trade, including analysis of the martbids database.
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Watch: Irish casein making Mexican cheese
In this Farm Tech Talk interview, managing director of Ornua Ingredients Seamus Greene chats to Lorcan Allen about the role of Irish casein in the Mexican market.
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Dairy markets: Rabobank warns of rising milk production in 2021
The farmer-owned bank has said it expects dairy market fundamentals to remain weak until 2021.
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The importance of celebrating Irish food produce
As the uncertainties surrounding COVID-19 remain, we at the National Dairy Council are more grateful than ever to represent the resilient group of farmers and food producers of Ireland.
SheepWatch: factory price pressure reflected in mart sales
The trade is being helped somewhat by scarce supplies of finished lambs and this is generating more competition among buyers.
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The importance of celebrating Irish food produce
As the uncertainties surrounding COVID-19 remain, we at the National Dairy Council are more grateful than ever to represent the resilient group of farmers and food producers of Ireland.
Get all the updates from the Teagasc Virtual Sheep Week
Throughout this week, there is an opportunity to tune into the Teagasc Virtual Sheep Week on all Teagasc online platforms.
Cow-first approach guides latest innovations for Fullwood Packo
Global population is expected to reach 10.5 billion people by 2067 – and with it an increased demand for sustainable sources of dairy.
Pied Piper Chemicals Ltd - the only Irish-owned manufacturer of rodenticide
Denis Leamy, who has 144 Munster caps and 57 Ireland caps, tackles rodents with Pied Piper Rat and Mouse Bait on his farm to keep it rodent-free.
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Gary Abbott recently spent some time with the 37m3 Krone MX 370 GL forage wagon to see how it performed
Grass quality has improved greatly over the last week as the farm received an ideal amount of rain.
Martin Corrigan farms with his father Kevin just outside Belcoo, Co Fermanagh. They run a herd of 27 Simmental cross cows with the farm undergoing some major changes over the past three years.
In today's episode the Irish Farmers Journal's Lorcan Allen speaks to Paul Crosson, John Finn and Sinead Waters on ‘Sustainable Beef Production - Where policy meets practice’. The team also look at what's happening around sustainability on the BRIDE Project in East Cork, in Co. Kilkenny with Teagasc's Catherine Keena. The team also visit Tully Farm in Co. Kildare.
John Egerton stopped breeding his spring-calving cows after seven weeks.
Dairylink Ireland participant Stephen Wallace farms near Seaforde, Co Down.
Adam Woods, Beef & Suckler Editor with the Irish Farmers Journal is joined by Donall Fahy, Bernadette Earley and Alan Dillon from Teagasc who focus on the Grange dairy calf-to-beef system study and the key components that are helping achieve high performance. Adam also pays a visit to Tipperary dairy calf to beef farmer J.P Hammersley to take a look at his system of farming.
Adam Woods, Beef & Suckler Editor with the Irish Farmers Journal is joined by Michael McManus, Bernadette Earley and Alan Twomey from Teagasc. Focusing on the Derrypatrick Herd at the Teagasc Animal and Grassland, Research and Innovation centre, in Grange County Meath, this episode of Beef Talk will look at how it achieves its breeding targets of 100% AI and a very compact calving.
Beef editor Adam Woods speaks to Tullamore Farm manager Shaun Diver about what’s been happening on Tullamore farm over the last few weeks
Down to Agribusiness Podcast: Fonterra back in profit and PGI beef row
In this week’s Down to Agribusiness podcast, Lorcan Allen and Phelim O’Neill discuss the ongoing row over a PGI for Irish beef, a return to profits for Fonterra and a tough year for Origin Enterprises
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IT Tralee forced to drop agricultural course for 2020
IT Tralee has been forced to drop its level 7 Agricultural Mechanisation degree course for 2020 due to a low level of qualifying applicants having secured the necessary work placement.
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Yamaha announces updated ATV line up for 2021
Yamaha have announced a number of updates to its ATV range for 2021 including a standard diff lock and multi-disc wet brakes. Peter Thomas Keaveney reports.
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Grain Trends: prices being helped by high Asian demand
Higher than expected demand for grains and feeds in southeast Asia is supporting prices across the globe.
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Tillage Management: planting season returns just as harvest ends
With harvest finished and stubbles cleared, try and get stubbles cultivate shallowly and consider catch crops still on land destined for spring planting.
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