Sheep farming

The latest sheep farming news and sheep prices from the Irish Farmers Journal. Keep up to date with all farming and production news developments in the sheep farming sector.

Assessing organic farming and sheep production
Assessing organic farming and sheep production
High payment rates are said to be encouraging more sheep farmers to consider converting to organic farming before the 2024 deadline of 29 November 2024.
Sheep Management: ram management, temporary grazing and liver fluke
Sheep Management: ram management, temporary grazing and liver fluke
Giving priority treatment to young rams after their first breeding season will help to improve their longevity and reduce the number of rams culled after their first season.
Sheep price update: firm appetite for fleshed lambs
Sheep price update: firm appetite for fleshed lambs
Demand for slaughter-fit sheep remains solid, with prices in factories and marts starting the week in a broadly similar manner.
UK sheep production forecasts revised downwards
UK sheep production forecasts revised downwards
The AHDB now forecasts that production in 2024 is likely to fall by almost 8%, while the 2024/2025 lamb crop is estimated reduce by 4% compared with this season’s figures.
The Grass Week: ground firm but grass running out
The Grass Week: ground firm but grass running out
While ground conditions are excellent for the most part, it will be a lack of grass that will force any stock indoors.
The Grass Week: graze hard while the going is good
The Grass Week: graze hard while the going is good
Conditions for the most part are favourable, so farmers should use this opportunity to get wetter paddocks grazed off.
Black Beauties sale tops at €6,000
Black Beauties sale tops at €6,000
Rachel Gallagher reports from Blessington livestock mart for the 15th annual Black Beauties Suffolk sale.
Final show for the prestigious Knockcroghery Charollais flock
Final show for the prestigious Knockcroghery Charollais flock
Rachel Gallagher reports from her interview with Declan Miley ahead of the upcoming dispersal of his award-winning Knockcroghery Charollais flock.
Tullamore Farm: sheep mating progresses as suckler herd weaning completed
Tullamore Farm: sheep mating progresses as suckler herd weaning completed
Farm manager Shaun Diver gives an update on what’s happening on Tullamore farm, as breeding progresses well in the ewe flock while the last of the beef calves have been weaned.
Producing nutrient-dense food in west Cork
Producing nutrient-dense food in west Cork
Steve Collins’ lifelong dedication to fighting malnutrition has taken him all over the world and lives on through his current ‘passion project’– a small hill farm in west Cork, writes Brendan Dunford.
Promising autumn eases the strain of a challenging year
Promising autumn eases the strain of a challenging year
This week, the From the Tramlines farmers give their take on a challenging year which has ended on a hopeful note.
Dry ground conditions for maize harvest
Dry ground conditions for maize harvest
This week, Conor Kehoe talks to farmers in Derry, Waterford, and Dublin as farmers continue to harvest maize and plant cereals in good conditions.
Bennettsbridge Limestone’s Cubicle Lime: boosting cow comfort and milk yield SPONSORED
Bennettsbridge Limestone’s Cubicle Lime: boosting cow comfort and milk yield
Bennettsbridge Limestone’s Cubicle Lime is a unique disinfectant-style product which has been formulated using a blend of superfine limestone powder and hydrated lime.
Protect your calves: a new approach to cryptosporidiosis controlSPONSORED
Protect your calves: a new approach to cryptosporidiosis control
Neonatal calf diarrhoea or calf scour is consistently the number one cause of death in calves less than one month of age in Ireland.
Turning waste into opportunity: how anaerobic digestion benefits Irish farmersSPONSORED
Turning waste into opportunity: how anaerobic digestion benefits Irish farmers
Agriculture has always been at the heart of rural Ireland, providing food, livelihoods and community cohesion.
Continued strong demand for land from farmers SPONSORED
Continued strong demand for land from farmers
Susan Maher, agricultural development manager (southeast and midlands) at Bank of Ireland and recently appointed president of the ASA, discusses the key trends the bank is seeing in the agri sector.
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