Friday
Rains are to spread northeastwards on Friday as temperatures reach up to 11 to 14°C, according to Met Éireann.
Halloween night is to remain wet and cloudy, with a small chance of isolated hail and lightning as temperatures fall to lows of 5 to 7°C degrees.
Saturday
The day is top have some scattered showers with sunny spells in between, although downpours are expected by Met Éireann to be heavier along the western seaboard at times.
Highest temperatures of 9 to 12°C are forecast during the day, before temperatures fall to between 4 and 7°C overnight.
Sunday
The day is expected to start off dry but breezy, with some showers forecast along the west coast, which are to move eastwards into the late afternoon.
Met Éireann forecast highest temperatures of 10 to 14°C.
Beef
In this week’s beef notes, Martin Merrick discusses the essentials when grazing forage crops, the risk of pneumonia when housing cattle and TAMS III investment considerations.
Dairy
Aidan Brennan takes a look at the big news on slurry storage rules that emerged this week, teat sealing heifers and the speaker line up for the Irish Farmers Journal Dairy Day event on 15 November.
Sheep
This week’s sheep notes by Darren Carty go into breeding ewe lambs, completing Sheep Improvement Scheme fecal egg counts in hill flocks and the rapidly approaching deadline for spreading farmyard manure.
Tillage
Siobhán Walsh’s tillage notes discuss the progression of fieldwork around the country, the three-crop rule, protecting oilseed rape and cover crops.
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