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Home Farm: basic message is clear after a dry summer

Over-wilting can clearly cause compaction and fermentation problems.

VIEWPOINTS 4 November 2026

Home Farm: basic message is clear after a dry summer

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Disease risks to be mindful to this autumn

Disease risks to be mindful to this autumn

BREEDING & HEALTH 9 September 2026

Beef Welfare Scheme: faecal testing action explained

Beef Welfare Scheme: faecal testing action explained

ANIMAL HEALTH 26 August 2026

Financial risk too high to purchase sick weanlings

Financial risk too high to purchase sick weanlings

Financial risk too high to purchase sick weanlings

NEWS 26 August 2026

Lungworm vaccine to be withdrawn next year

Lungworm vaccine to be withdrawn next year

Lungworm vaccine to be withdrawn next year

NORTHERN IRELAND 22 July 2026

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Dry conditions to fix grass surplus

Dry conditions to fix grass surplus

David Wright reports from an AgriSearch GrassCheck event held on the Martin farm outside Greyabbey in Co Down.

NORTHERN IRELAND 15 July 2026

Sheep Management: weather management, worm counts, straw and tagging

Sheep Management: weather management, worm counts, straw and tagging

Weather conditions are ideal in many parts of the country while for others a growing soil moisture deficit is slowing grass growth.

MANAGEMENT 8 July 2026

How to identify haemonchus contortus early

How to identify haemonchus contortus early

The disease – which is increasing in prevalence – can hit flocks sporadically, resulting in rapid infection and possible mortality where the disease goes unnoticed.

ANIMAL HEALTH 23 May 2026

Nematodirus egg hatching has already peaked

Nematodirus egg hatching has already peaked

Hatching took place from the last week or March to first week of April in most areas leaving at-risk lambs susceptible to disease

BREEDING & HEALTH 15 April 2026

Irish Farmers Journal launches new ‘Farm Alert’ vaccine text reminder service

Irish Farmers Journal launches new ‘Farm Alert’ vaccine text reminder service

Stay on top of vaccines and doses with Farm Alert, the Irish Farmers Journal’s new text reminder service that turns herd health planning from complex to simple.

NEWS 3 December 2025

Farmer Writes: losing the derogation is not an option

Farmer Writes: losing the derogation is not an option

Despite the frustration at Corrin Mart, there was a real sense of solidarity - of farmers standing together for the future of Irish agriculture.

FARMER WRITES 12 November 2025

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SenseHub Lifetime: every animal, every stage, every minute

MSD Animal Health has launched SenseHub® Lifetime, the world’s only system that monitors dairy animals at every stage of life. It covers calves, replacement heifers and the cow’s entire lactation.

SenseHub Lifetime: every animal, every stage, every minute