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A visit to the Glastonbury of farming and – facing into another drought – despite brief respite from the last blast of hot weather where we lost 4l a cow a day.
Uisce Éireann delays water shut off after farmers raise heatwave fears
MartBids Database: figures tell different feeling to mood
Mart managers: premiums available for the right type of weanling
Teagasc issues fresh feeding advice as heatwave hits grass growth
Cork show cow makes Irish history with first EX97 score in almost 30 years
The new pilot is being funded by the state and is a collaborative project with industry, but payments will be made to farmers by industry.
Decline in afforestation is not addressed in the recent Food Vision report, but the promise of a new strategy in line with the Mackinnon report is welcome and should feature in the mid-term review.
"We are world leaders in dairy, intensive beef and tillage but fly blind in managing 20% of our agricultural area!" - Ger Roarty, Co Donegal.
The first two years of a research study examining peatland carbon emissions shows significance variance to the UK Peatland Inventory, with the hill farm sequestering rather than emitting carbon.
Clearly Department policy is driving in completely the wrong direction, with less and less farmers and livestock in the uplands with more and more invasive species.
The first two years of a research study examining peatland carbon emissions shows significance variance to the UK Peatland Inventory with the hill farm sequestering rather than emitting carbon
What does it take to build and operate a resilient dairy-beef enterprise? Operating as a fully standalone commercial entity, Tipperary Dairy Calf to Beef Demonstration Farm (Ballyvadin Beef Farm Ltd) offers farmers real-world data.
