• Approximately 500 inspections are to be carried out in May by the Health and Safety Authority with the focus on tractor and machinery safety.
  • Ciaran Lenehan reports from a bull sale in Alberta, Canada, where there was no auctioneer, the bulls were all crossbred and buyers knew how much they would be paying before the sale started.
  • A number of dead sheep and lambs have been found abandoned on a roadside and a river in Co Derry.
  • A farmer in his 70s has died following an accident involving cattle outside Gorey, Co Wexford.
  • Farmer buying activity was strong for bullocks and heifers in Skibbereen on Friday, with the best continental steers push over €3/kg.

    • Photo of the day

    Courtesy of the Irish Farmers Journal picture desk, here is our photo of the day:

    Peter Houston snapped Royal Ulster Agricultural Society president Cyril Millar on his dairy farm near Coleraine with his grandson, Charlie.