• Demand is growing for heifers and steers from the factories, but they’re doing very little in the way of a price increase.
  • If cows aren’t housed after ex-hurricane Ophelia and storm Brian, then the end of the road is in sight for grazing 2017. Aidan Brennan offers advice to farmers on what to do next.
  • Bluetongue has been detected in Scotland. It was found in a batch of 10 cattle which had been imported from France.
  • It has been a rough spell, but thankfully there are no special names on the weather this week. It’s looking drier after Tuesday too.
  • In an attempt to raise awareness around farm safety, marts across the country are holding a minute of silence during sales this week.

    • Photo of the day

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

    John McLean, Bushmills, Co Antrim, is pictured busily preparing his animals for showing at the National Dairy Show in Milstreet. Donal O’Leary