• Thousands of cattle are set to sail for Turkey next week.
  • Kerry and Carbery have increased their July milk prices.
  • Tullamore Show 2017 attracted record numbers of visitors and animals, but the Minister for Agriculture wasn’t among them.
  • There was strong demand for light stores in an otherwise low-key sale at Bandon Mart today.
  • German-based Innogy has acquired its first wind farm in Ireland, signalling the entry of giant European utilities into the Irish renewables sector.

    • Photo of the day

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

    John Joe Murphy and Dennis Codd from Bunclody unload their hoggets before the sale at the 30th Sheepbreeders Show at Tullow Mart. Ramona Farrelly