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Dairy
Dairy Management: soil moisture deficits creep up
Aidan Brennan
With variable rain over most of the country over the last week and with very little rain forecast, farmers will be rightly worried about grass growth, writes Aidan Brennan.
26 June 2024 News
Drought risk in the east is highest in Europe
Professor Conor Murphy of Maynooth University outlined his climate change research at a Teagasc Signpost webinar.
19 June 2024 World
Market Digest: stories from around the world
Brief news snippets from Zimbabwe, China, United States and Australia.
Climate change: driving up animal diseases on your farm
Wetter and warmer weather will bring with them a whole new set of disease pressures for Irish farms. Caitríona Morrissey reports.
8 May 2024 News
By degrees: how climate change is already affecting your farm
Professor Conor Murphy from Maynooth University recently spoke about the current and future impact of climate change on farming. Caitríona Morrissey reports.
1 May 2024 News
Australian farmer digs mass grave for flock of 3,000 sheep
Wayne Smith of Caluka Farms in Western Australia said it is more humane to slaughter the sheep than to leave them go thirsty or hungry.
19 April 2024 News
US ranchers sentenced
The Colorado ranchers were sentenced to pay $6.6m after they damaged rain gauges in an effort to get paid for a worsening drought.
13 March 2024 News
Record Australian lamb production
Australia's Bureau of Statistics (ABS) confirms that 2023 was the year that Australian beef and sheep production returned to its full potential.
23 February 2024 News
Uisce Éireann fined for fish kill in Clare river
The court heard that the vast majority of fish - including salmon, eels and trout - died from suffocation following a pollution incident. Gordon Deegan reports.
19 February 2024 News
US cattle herd at lowest level since 1951
Two years of severe drought across much of the US has severely hit livestock numbers, with inflated fodder prices and a shortage of grazing forcing ranchers to offload stock.
11 February 2024 News
Dublin in drought amid downpours and deluges
Despite rainfall levels at Dublin Airport running 25% ahead of average in 2023, Uisce Éireann is calling on the public to reduce water usage in the capital.
31 January 2024 Dealer
2023 – a year that rubbed salt into raw wounds
The incessant rain of the summer and autumn of 2023 won’t be easily forgotten, writes Derek Robinson
10 January 2024 Farmer Writes