Farming news
The Farmers Journal is dedicated to providing the most up-to-date and informative farming news in Ireland. Browse through the articles below to keep up with the latest Irish farming news, opinion pieces, videos and more.
This week in photos: ploughing pea stubble and buffer-feeding red clover silage
Our top farming photos from the past week include farmer Tommy Clancy moving his Limousin suckler herd to fresh grass, a packed Kilcullen Mart in Co Kildare and 370 Norwegian Reds being milked.
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Editorial: farm organisations must condemn aggressive behaviour by a few
Editor Justin McCarthy writes about the behaviour of protesters at the abandoned beef taskforce meeting on Monday.
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Farmer Writes: beef, as we know it, is practically finished
Between low beef prices and the difficulty in getting cattle killed, it's been a year to forget - if you’re allowed that luxury, writes Gerald Potterton.
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Farmer Writes: breeding in full swing and testing silage
The first round of breeding finished last week with the natural service ewes. If all goes well, we won’t have many repeats, writes Brian Nicholson.
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farms with infections entering the udder via the teat end
Sixty years of selling at Kanturk Mart
I hear celebrations are afoot in Kanturk as the mart there will be celebrating its 60th anniversary next month.
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Pictures of the week - 19th of October
We visit Virginia Mens’s Shed in Co. Cavan to see how the support they get from Brady’s Topline helps keep the good work going and benefits the wider community. The ‘buddy bench’ made by the members of the Shed is a clever idea that might help lighten the load for kids who are feeling a little bit down.
Talking heifer rearing with vets Michael O Meara and Tom Julian
We discuss why some antibiotics are critically important. Keep an eye out for video number five in the series, where we will take a look at the purchasing, recording and storage of antibiotics.
Donal Lynch and Isabella Coen discuss dairy herd fertility
Brian and Kevin discuss monitoring test end damage and managing SCC
John Egerton has a strict culling policy on his suckler farm in Co Fermanagh
Agritech Focus: HerdEye
Young lad milking the cows on a hoverboard.
Talking lameness prevention at xlvets animal health day
Change in weather brings feeding equipment out earlier
Farmers may have had plans to carry out some remedial works on equipment, which now need to be fast tracked to ensure optimum working performance and avoid health and safety risks.
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Make the most out of the dry period and improve udder health during
lactation
The dry period is the main time at which mastitis infections are acquired on many Irish
farms with infections entering the udder via the teat end
Teagasc aiming to combat ash dieback through genetics
Ash dieback first arrived in Ireland seven years ago and has since spread rapidly to all parts of the country.
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Tariff-free access for 180,000t of Mercosur poultry
Amy Forde looks at what access the Mercosur bloc of countries will have to the EU market for poultry.
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Poultry producers fear further imports of 'sub-standard' product
Poultry farmers have raised concerns about the 100,000t quota for chicken included in the EU-Mercosur trade deal.
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