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The fertiliser industry is to the fore in this weeks focus. How does the indsutry sit going into 2026?
Contractors call for extension to hedge-cutting season
Calf numbers surge above usual levels at marts
Calf price update: numbers soar above 2025 levels
Calf Series: buying and getting calves back home
Opinion: Newbridge protest has farmers going round in circles
With agriculture now making up 50% of Applied Concepts’ sales, its managing director Mark Clendennen tells Peter Thomas Keaveney about the business as it enters its 16th year.
During her travels Nuffield scholar Molly Garvey found that collaboration between farmers, organisations and policy makers is still possible even across deep divides.
It is nothing short of disingenuous for political parties and Government ministers to promise farmers increased payment rates pre-election, only to retract those commitments after the fact.
Sustaining close to 25,000 jobs in Ireland, the total economic value of the farm machinery sector to the Irish economy is €4.76bn annually.
Pigs, cereals and potatoes all projected to show a drop from 2024 levels.
On average it will cost £260 to rear a beef calf until sale or turnout in March 2026
For farmers considering buying store lambs, they should consider what the margin might actually be.
Raising healthy calves on the McCloy-Peoples’ Farm in Donegal Just outside Ramelton, Co Donegal, Bert McCloy and his son-in-law Jason Peoples run a busy dairy farm milking around 200 cows.
