• A new Bord Bia Insight Centre opened in London in an effort to boost exports to the UK.
  • Aurivo presented €40,000 to the charity Acquired Brain Injury Ireland (ABII) as part of the co-ops Charity of the Year programme.
  • It has been announced that Minister of State with the Department of Agriculture, Andrew Doyle, is off to Vietnam for St Patrick's day.
  • Two students from Bandon have won a €2,000 grant for further education through the Angus calf-rearing competition.

    • Photo of the day

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

    Tom Shanahan retired farmer bottle feeding two of his 10 day old lambs. One whos mother died and another who was abanoned by her mother ( The second year in a row the sheep has abandoned her lamb) His son Now manages the Beef suckler farm in Templetouhy Co. Tipperary

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    Tom Shanahan, a retired farmer from Templetouhy Co. Tipperary, bottle feeding two of his 10-day-old lambs. One lamb's mother died and the other was abanoned by her mother (the second year in a row the sheep has abandoned her lamb).