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Farmer Writes: a break from social media at Christmas

Tommy Moyles uses his phone as a bit of a diary among other things, but he's looking to cut back using it for a while over the Christmas, or so he thinks.

FARMER WRITES 24 December 2025

Farmer Writes: a break from social media at Christmas

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Sheep management: ewe condition, drafting lambs and sheep census returns

Sheep management: ewe condition, drafting lambs and sheep census returns

MANAGEMENT 24 December 2025

Farmer Writes: running a dairy farm has been difficult this year

Farmer Writes: running a dairy farm has been difficult this year

NEWS 20 December 2025

Two suspected cases of bluetongue on fourth NI farm

Two suspected cases of bluetongue on fourth NI farm

Two suspected cases of bluetongue on fourth NI farm

NORTHERN IRELAND 16 December 2025

You can help develop a new testing kit for potato blight

You can help develop a new testing kit for potato blight

You can help develop a new testing kit for potato blight

NEWS 10 December 2025

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Tillage Management: nitrates, weather and herbicides

Tillage Management: nitrates, weather and herbicides

New nitrates rules are mainly positive for tillage farmers with some restrictions on manures applied in the autumn time.

HUSBANDRY 27 November 2025

Orange weather warning for 11 counties

Orange weather warning for 11 counties

Storm Bram is set to hit the country on Tuesday morning, with Met Éireann warning of very strong to gale-force winds.

NEWS 27 November 2025

Weekend Weather: turning milder with spells of rain and dry intervals

Weekend Weather: turning milder with spells of rain and dry intervals

Met Éireann has said that this weekend will be changeable with spells of rain, showers and some dry intervals. It will be turning milder too.

NEWS 27 November 2025

Tillage Podcast: poor income figures and a chat with a US farmer

Tillage Podcast: poor income figures and a chat with a US farmer

This week’s podcast has news on tillage incomes and a chat with a US farmer in Iowa, one of the biggest cropping states in the United States.

NEWS 27 November 2025

NI records third-wettest autumn

NI records third-wettest autumn

Met Office figures confirm NI's autumn was the third wettest since records began

NORTHERN IRELAND 27 November 2025

Farm incomes estimated to be up 33% on average this year

Farm incomes estimated to be up 33% on average this year

The new report from Teagasc economists shows farm incomes have improved in all sectors bar pigs.

NEWS 27 November 2025

Tillage Podcast: soil, biological solutions and markets

Tillage Podcast: soil, biological solutions and markets

This week’s show features the news, a grain price report and an interview from the US on biological plant solutions.

NEWS 27 November 2025

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Irish dairy’s green advantage across the globe

Our success in export markets depends not only on finding new buyers, but on protecting the strong and hard-fought position we occupy on the global stage.

Irish dairy’s green advantage across the globe

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