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My Farming Week: David Goulding, Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary
Rachel Donovan
David is a beef and tillage farmer who began to dip his toe in organics last year by sowing 20ac of organic oats for Flahavan's.
12 February 2025 Viewpoints
View from China: a brutal year for Chinese beef farmers on cost front
The Chinese beef industry has grown very quickly and is trying to adapt to meet demand.
7 February 2025 News
Farm Tech Talk: ACRES, AI companies and the row over ICBF stars
The latest on the ACRES scheme, moves by AI companies to protect Irish genetics and the ongoing row over the Euro-star indices all feature on this week's show.
Incorrect to say show heifers have no stars - NCBC
Farmers' arguments with ICBF indexes should focus on the maternal index's weightings, rather than on stars versus no stars, NCBC's Goulding said.
5 February 2025 News
Editorial: changing genetic scene
The key change internationally seems to be that instead of the breeding program owning bulls in the future, it needs to own the females, writes Jack Kennedy.
5 February 2025 Editorial
Use of high-CBV beef AI straws up 49% in 2024
The CBV of calves born from the dairy herd has risen through the increased use of sexed semen, according to Teagasc.
29 January 2025 News
UFU / YFCU look at farming in the year 2100
Tom Morrow reports from a UFU / YFCU conference on farming in 2100, held last Wednesday in Antrim
29 January 2025 Northern Ireland
TB reactors jump 44% to over 41,000
The latest Irish Farmers Journal analysis found that the 12-month herd incident rate for TB ended the year at exactly 6%.
22 January 2025 News
Department vet advises against contract rearing over TB risk
Martin Ryan gave this advice while speaking to many affected farmers at the North Tipperary Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) AGM on Monday night.
22 January 2025 News
My Farming Week: Mark Bateman, Lissarda, Co Cork
Young dairy farmer, Mark Bateman, from Co Cork is on this edition of My Farming Week.
22 January 2025 News
Farming issues to gain key ground in next Dáil
The Regional Independent Group has gained key concessions for farmers in the programme for government.
15 January 2025 News
Chief vet: additional measures needed to prevent TB spread
Given the trend in the levels of disease in recent years some measures we will have to consider will be difficult, writes Dr June Fanning.
15 January 2025 News