• Last year was the strongest on record for Irish exports of meat, Bord Bia has revealed.

  • A Cavan farmer who won €40,000 in the lotto has pledged to tell nobody, except one very important person.
  • An early Easter and earlier Muslim festivals is potentially good news for sheep farmers.

  • Some 1,200 farmers who applied for the Young Farmer Scheme have not yet been paid.
  • Temperatures are going to fall as low as -5° this weekend.

    • Photo of the day

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

    Lambs just a few days old are put out to grass on Sean Mannion’s farm in Abbeyknockmoy, Co Galway. David Ruffles