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Top of €5,150 at Waterford Blackface sheep breeders sale

The sale recorded a clearance rate of 92% for hogget rams averaging at €960/head, while ram lambs averaged at €676/head.

PEDIGREE 12 November 2025

Top of €5,150 at Waterford Blackface sheep breeders sale

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Thoughts now turn to breeding sheep

Thoughts now turn to breeding sheep

FARMER WRITES 10 November 2025

NI Farmer Writes: season drawing in with tup lamb sales

NI Farmer Writes: season drawing in with tup lamb sales

NORTHERN IRELAND 18 October 2025

Top price of €7,000 at South of Ireland Lanark sale

Top price of €7,000 at South of Ireland Lanark sale

Top price of €7,000 at South of Ireland Lanark sale

PEDIGREE 8 October 2025

Blackface ram lambs to 34,000gns at Ballymena

Blackface ram lambs to 34,000gns at Ballymena

Blackface ram lambs to 34,000gns at Ballymena

NORTHERN IRELAND 8 October 2025

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A Farmer Writes: unwelcome storm as tup fever kicks-in

A Farmer Writes: unwelcome storm as tup fever kicks-in

Lucy Christie has been helping to prepare Blackface rams for sale on Monday.

FARMER WRITES 13 September 2025

Hill group breeding sales in full swing

Hill group breeding sales in full swing

Entries have also opened for Sheep Ireland’s 2025 multi-breed hill ram sale of genotyped and sire verified rams, all of which are eligible for the Sheep Improvement Scheme.

BREEDING & HEALTH 13 September 2025

28,000gns for Bluefaced Leicester ram lamb

28,000gns for Bluefaced Leicester ram lamb

On Saturday records were broken at Ballymena Livestock Mart in the Bluefaced Leicester ram lamb section with a new centre record for Northern Ireland.

NORTHERN IRELAND 13 September 2025

Farmer Writes: best to leave the experts to sort the sheep

Farmer Writes: best to leave the experts to sort the sheep

Lucy Christie reckons decisions on which sheep to allocate to various batches is best left to others.

FARMER WRITES 13 September 2025

Attention to detail the key to targets in Glentraigue

Attention to detail the key to targets in Glentraigue

Martin Joe Kerrigan is doing the simple things right and seeing the rewards for it on his organic hill farm, writes Martin Merrick.

BREEDING & HEALTH 13 September 2025

How Mayo became home to Ireland’s largest sheep farm

How Mayo became home to Ireland’s largest sheep farm

A new book tells this extraordinary story of how vast tracts of land were cleared of tenants in the wake of the Famine to create a Scottish-style hill sheep system. Edwin McGreal reports.

NEWS 13 September 2025

Sales dates announced for hill sheep breeding groups

Sales dates announced for hill sheep breeding groups

Entries have also opened for Sheep Ireland’s 2025 multi-breed hill ram sale of genotyped and sire verified rams, all of which are eligible for the Sheep Improvement Scheme.

NEWS 13 September 2025

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PGI boosting value of all beef in Italy

Francesca Perfetto heads Bord Bia’s office in Milan, Italy, and tells the Irish Farmers Journal about promoting Irish food and drink in her country.

PGI boosting value of all beef in Italy

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