• Silage costs spiralling – we look at rising diesel and wrap prices.
  • Farm incomes warning for 2016 despite decent 2015 results.
  • TAMS approval delays turning into a fiasco.
  • Report from the Connacht Spring Show sheep shearing.
  • We feature the only Donegal farmer listed in the EBI 200.
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  • Meanwhile, IFA president Joe Healy flies to Brussels to demand action from European Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan on incomes.
  • Quad thefts on the rise in Limerick.
  • We have a camera at the mart from Nenagh.

    • Dairy

  • A €7,000 drop in May milk cheque.
  • Kerry milk suppliers revolt on price with more than 2,000 people signing up for arbitration.
  • We go behind the scenes on one of the first sharemilking farms in Galway.

    • Pedigree

  • Report from the Irish Angus sale in Kilmallock, which had a 92% clearance rate.
  • Shirley Busteed reports from the Limousin premier show and sale in Roscrea.

  • A Kilkenny farmer explains how he pumps water from a river without electricity.
  • A crop report from Andy Doyle on the Athy field walks.
  • In our farm buildings focus – Planning permission, grant aid and new innovations.

    • Property

  • We review an auction of four land parcels in Limerick.
  • A 172-acre Westmeath farm bid to €1m.
  • An 82-acre non-residential farm is on the market in Camolin.
  • An attractive 44-acre holding in Co Laois goes to auction at the end of June.

    • And in Irish Country Living ...

  • We head to Greystones to meet the very Happy Pears.
  • We visit Castlecomer Discovery Park to look at their new zipline.
  • Anthony Jordan takes a look at how valuable broadband is to a rural community.
  • Nessa Robins shares her favourite nourishing recipes for building bones and nursing fractures.
  • Aisling Hussey chats to RTÉ presenter-turned-BBC science buff Liz Bonnin.
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