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Weekend weather: dry but cloudy at times
Rachel Donovan
Highest temperatures on Saturday will be of 11°C to 15°C generally, with some well-scattered showers.
29 April 2025 Poultry
Compulsory housing order for poultry to be lifted in May
Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon has urged that farmer remain cautious about the risk of avian influenza, as he announced that the measures introduced in February would be lifted.
27 April 2025 News
Vintage tractor motoring in Monaghan
Alex Hawthorne, a farmer from Aghabog, Co Monaghan, has been called on to help local farmers with sowing and spreading fertiliser in recent weeks with his vintage David Brown 996.
Farmer Writes: swallows make a return
In this area, the cuckoo has traditionally returned mid-April and with impeccable timing, they flew in just before the weather turned on the 18 April.
23 April 2025 Farmer Writes
Biocore: turning sludge into power
Stephen Robb visits Biocore Environmental in Roscommon, which uses wastewater sludge as feedstock for its anaerobic digestion.
18 April 2025 Renewables
Farmer Writes: a brief history of fertiliser spreaders
As Gerald Potterton gets through plenty of spreading and spraying in the fine weather, he takes a look at the technological advances of fertiliser spreaders.
9 April 2025 Farmer Writes
EU animal disease strategy ‘not fit for purpose’ – MEP
MEP Maria Walsh said that the rise of animal disease has the potential to “ravage” farms, and is emerging as one of the top agriculture concerns in the EU.
9 April 2025 News
No difference in emissions from dribble bar and trailing shoe, research finds
The study found there was no difference in emissions from different LESS application methods.
8 April 2025 News
Roscommon contractor celebrates 50 years of lime spreading
Peter Thomas Keaveney travelled to Elphin in Co Roscommon to catch up with Padraig Berine who was busy spreading lime, now his 50th year at the job.
19 March 2025 Farm machinery
Setting up the spreader: understanding the difference between urea and compounds
Peter Thomas Keaveney looks at the main steps involved in checking over the fertiliser spreader, and outlines the importance of adjusting the spreader depending on the type of fertiliser being spread.
12 March 2025 News
'Variable application rate of a different kind'
Fergal O'Sullivan takes a closer look at how best to setup ATV/UTV ground drive fertiliser spreaders to utilise both spreader and fertiliser performance and avoid the potential pitfalls.
19 February 2025 News
TAMS III grant aid for greater GPS accuracy
Gary Abbott looks at the grant aid available under TAMS III for GPS-controlled fertiliser spreaders, the factors to consider and how such machines achieve pin-point accuracy.
5 February 2025 Farm machinery