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My Farming Week: Dessie Howley, Bonniconlon, Co Mayo
Tommy Moyles
Dessie Howley, Bonninconlon, Co Mayo, farms with his wife Sharon and three children in north Mayo. They had a few surprises over the recent calving season.
24 April 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: suckler farmers a rare breed
If our weather is going to continue to be as unpredictable as it has been in the last couple of years, the winter is going to be more of a slog than ever
18 April 2024 News
Tirlán increases March milk price
Tirlán’s base price for March is 37.7c/l, excluding VAT, based on standard constituents of 3.6% butterfat and 3.3% protein.
Tipperary Sam lifts the top price in Cashel
Shanon Kinahan was in Cashel Mart on Saturday for the Irish Aubrac Cattle Breed Society sale.
17 April 2024 Pedigree
Sync, breed, succeed in Emly, Co Tipperary
“Having half your heifer calves born by 3 February,” was Michael’s response when asked what the best thing was about having used sexed sorted semen for the first time last year.
11 April 2024 Advertisers' anouncements
‘Breeding is a long-term game and we are aiming for a balanced bull’
Adam Woods visits Gigginstown Farm in Westmeath to talk all things Aberdeen Angus with farm manager Joe O’Mahony.
10 April 2024 Beef breeding
Farmer Writes: four failed attempts at turnout
I’m always happier to talk about things that are going wrong rather than things that are going right (as that will tempt fate), writes English dairy farmer Joe Collingborn.
10 April 2024 Farmer Writes
Tirlán to pay 3c/l weather support payment to suppliers
Part of the package is a 3c/l weather payment on all March milk volumes in recognition of the exceptionally challenging weather.
8 April 2024 News
Farmer Writes: 12 months' rain in nine
The rain rolls on in west Cork as well as everywhere else in the country and Tommy Moyles has had to adapt his farm plans accordingly.
3 April 2024 Farmer Writes
Beef Management: grazing problems and scour issues
In this week's Beef Management, Adam Woods takes a look at grazing issues and calf scour.
3 April 2024 Management
My Farming Week: Julie Mullarkey, Glaslough, Co Monaghan
Julie Mullarkey is a dairy farmer in Monaghan who feature in a Lakeland Dairies' video 'Nature is Wonderful', tells of the joy it brings to have her children out on the farm with her.
3 April 2024 News
Don't let calving fatigue set in
Spring calving is an intense period of work for farmers and the longer it goes on, it is easy to become fatigued and run down.
2 April 2024 Management