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News headlines (ROI)

  • Revealed: surge in number of cattle mega finishers
  • Beef quotes steady as numbers decline
  • Calf trade booming as demand holds firm
  • IFA calls for no further limit on BISS payments
  • Read about farm incomes rebounding
  • Western farmers most reliant on CAP payments
  • Farmers warned about 'significant' autumn tax bills
  • Focus – Sheep 2025

  • Weather and prices boost confidence in sheep sector
  • Lamb prices ahead of 2024 - ICM
  • Agribusiness

  • Good news on incomes hiding structural issues in Irish farming
  • EU beef imports from Mercosur at 16-year high
  • Livestock

  • Developing pillars of success for the Aherns
  • The rise of the mega-finisher in Ireland
  • Tillage

  • Low-cost auto-steering creates a buzz
  • New trailer rules explained
  • Detecting crop diseases early with leaf tests and DNA
  • Irish Country Living

  • Mural artist, Marian Noone, has lots of spray about street art
  • Read about dynamic duo after opening their equine business
  • Youth services help to make rural kids happy campers
  • Considerations when talking to children about sex
  • Summer is here - festival season is here
  • BA in sustainable butchery and gastronomy launched
  • Succession planning for your financial security
  • Pedigree

  • Milo flock claims champion at the 2025 Charollais All-Irelands
  • Highland Show highlights
  • Machinery

  • Buoyant machinery market in 2025
  • We sit down with Minister Michael Healy-Rae about future for farmers and contractors
  • Read more about the Hennessy Auctioneers' June machinery auction