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Northern Ireland
Northern View: factories keen to get beef prices down
David Wright
Prices paid for prime beef cattle were down marginally last week in NI.
4 May 2025 News
Sheep die after breaking into garden and eating rhododendron
Rhododendron contain large amounts of grayanotoxin which is highly lethal to sheep, the Department has advised.
26 April 2025 News
Ewe numbers fall by 94,477 head or 3.7% in 2024
The results of the Department of Agriculture’s annual sheep and goat census shows ewe numbers fell in each of the 26 counties.
Plans scuppered in another busy spring
Fermanagh farmer John Egerton had hoped he might be able to avoid the lambing shed this spring
16 April 2025 Farmer Writes
Sextuplet lambs
A Donegal farmer had 12 lambs out of two ewes in the space of a week.
2 April 2025 Dealer
New €22m National Sheep Welfare Scheme opens
The Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon announced the scheme on Monday which has a budget of €22 million and is a continuation and expansion of a similar scheme that operated in 2024.
31 March 2025 News
Lightning trade for breeding sheep at Clogher
David Clarke reports on the trade at a breeding sheep sale held in Clogher Mart.
26 March 2025 Northern Ireland
My Farming Week: Jim Hogan, Ballyegan, Birr, Co Offaly
Jim has 25 ewes lambing at the minute and also has 40 bee hives on his farm in Birr Co Offaly.
26 March 2025 News
Reflections after a week of lambing chaos
Only for kind weather, the first week of lambing could been disastrous, writes Derek Robinson.
19 March 2025 Farmer Writes
Northern View: prices paid still on an upward path
There is still upward momentum in the beef trade in NI, with prices up another 10p/kg.
5 March 2025 Northern Ireland
Weekend weather: wet and windy days to come
There is plenty of rain and wind forecast by Met Éireann this weekend.
21 February 2025 News
'Iceberg diseases' causing thin ewes in healthy flocks, research shows
The information was presented on the 2025 Teagasc spring sheep webinar, where they showcased a survey of 104 thin ewes over 60 flocks in the region.
16 February 2025 News