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Planning for a healthy summer with stock
Adam Woods
Adam Woods takes a look at this week’s special focus on summer health
21 May 2025 Management
Sheep Management: blowfly strike, nematodirus and SIS worm counts
Shearing contractors report coming in contact with more incidences of blowfly strike over the last week.
21 May 2025 News
Artificial intelligence is the fourth industrial revolution - Scanlon
Ireland’s national artificial intelligence ambassador has urged the agri industry to keep pace with the speed of acceleration or risk being left behind.
Prepping animal housing for health
Power washing and disinfection, along with other maintenance, is one of those necessary jobs to tackle over the summer on animal housing.
21 May 2025 Animal Health
Donegal farmers invent new hoof care system
Aidan Brennan visited Co Donegal where three farmers have come together to invent a new method of preventing and treating lameness.
21 May 2025 Animal Health
Top five summer health tips for sucklers
Tullamore farm vet Donal Lynch takes a look at some summer health tips for suckler farms.
21 May 2025 Animal Health
CAP simplification must be maximised – IFA
In addition, the IFA has reiterated its stance that GAEC-2 (protection of peatland and wetland) should be removed from conditionality.
21 May 2025 News
AgTech Ireland hosts conference on artificial intelligence in farming
The event, held in partnership with the Irish Farmers Journal and supported by FBD Insurance and Enterprise Ireland, was officially opened by Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon on Wednesday.
21 May 2025 News
Johne’s plans not implemented on NI dairy farms
Participation in a Johne’s control programme has been a requirement under the Red Tractor quality assurance scheme since October 2020.
14 May 2025 Northern Ireland
TB summit feedback must be ‘taken seriously’ - ICSA
The association’s animal health and welfare chair John Barron said that farmers must be recognised as key stakeholders in this process, not as passive recipients of policy.
14 May 2025 News
Shortage of large animal vets in rural Ireland - Veterinary Council
However, the statutory body regulating veterinary medicine in Ireland found that the veterinary register has grown by 30% since 2004.
14 May 2025 News
Imposing new TB rules without farmer agreement won't wash - IFA
TJ Maher said the focus of the Minister and his officials on blacklisting farmers through risk-based trading ignores the most fundamental objective - stopping the spread of TB.
13 May 2025 News