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Martin Merrick
Improved conditions allow cattle back out
The past week or so has allowed many drystock farmers back out to grass for the first time since last October.
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Adam Woods
Fewer calves sent to factories
Kieran Mailey
NI Trends: improved weather slows cattle supplies; lamb prices pushing on
Adam Woods
Grass buyers light up cattle trade
DAIRY
Declan Collins
Farmers release the grazing reigns with settled weather
Fewer calves sent to factories
Adam Woods has the latest on calf slaughtering figures and how they compare with previous years.
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SHEEP
Darren Carty
Sheep mart prices: Insatiable appetite for slaughter-fit sheep
Demand is outstripping supplies for hoggets, lambs and cull ewes while the upturn in weather and high prices is inserting more life in to trade for ewes with lambs at foot
Darren Carty
Sheep Trends: trade flying as prices up 20c/kg to 30c/kg
Lamb prices are climbing towards €10/kg for a growing number of producers, while hogget quotes are hot on its heels, with the differential narrowing further.
Darren Carty
Spring lamb prices reach €10/kg as quotes jump
Darren Carty
Sheep Management: greater focus on fertiliser phosphorus allowances
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PEDIGREE
Fireball sets Kilmallock alight
Shanon Kinahan was in Kilmallock Mart last Friday for the IHBS spring sale.
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Shanon Kinahan
Calling young Hereford breeders
Shanon Kinahan
North Eastern Rising stars calf show returns
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Upgrading barley yields with a new fungicide solution
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