Weather forecast

Met Éireann are forecasting a mostly dry today with sunny spells and just isolated passing showers. Temperatures this afternoon will reach between 15 and 19 degrees, warmest in the south. Winds will be light to moderate west to northwest in direction.

It will be dry for much of the country tonight but thickening cloud will bring outbreaks of rain and drizzle over counties in the north and northwest towards morning. Lowest temperatures 7 to 10 degrees as light variable breezes become southerly by morning.

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In the news today

  • EU commissioner Phil Hogan reassures UK farmers on CAP payments during Brexit talks.
  • World cattle vets gathered in Dublin warn of Brexit health and welfare risks.
  • Aidan Brennan offers his advice for controlling docks and thistles
  • With Farm Safety Week running all this week, Odile Evans shares her own experiences.
  • The Department's badger TB vaccination trial is to end in 2017.
  • Tillage editor Andy Doyle reports from Nebraska where he met 20 people working about 350 three- to four-month-old calves.
  • And in his last Vet's Corner column, Tommy Heffernan looks forward to the future.

    • Coming up today on farmersjournal.ie

  • Farm Safety Week: today’s focus is on the dangers of machinery.
  • Grain market update.
  • All the action from Teagasc’s Beef 2016 event.
  • The IFA elects its Connacht chair.

    • What's on today

  • Teagasc/FBD Beef 2016 Open Day 'Profitable Technologies.
  • Sheep Ireland/Teagasc Pedigree breeder workshop.

    • To see what’s coming up, visit our agri events calendar.