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Potatoes 'have to be handled like eggs'

Rain this week will help to reduce bruising in potato crops, but dry weather will be welcome to get potatoes out in the coming weeks.

29 September 2024 NEWS
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Trio of medium-sized Leinster farms for auction

All in grass, these properties are all in one block and are served by an excellent road network making each a good addition to any existing farm business, writes Tommy Moyles.

18 September 2024
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Mighty Meath land on the market

A large tillage farm in Co Meath with good road access heads for auction in early October, writes Tommy Moyles.

18 September 2024
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Over 1,900 acres of solar farms get green light

Four solar farm projects, which span over 1,900 acres in Louth, Tipperary, Meath and Cork, have been given the green light.

13 September 2024 NEWS
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Barley passing for malting but yields vary

This week, Conor Kehoe talks to farmers in Waterford, Galway, and Meath as the spring barley harvest begins to wrap up.

11 September 2024
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My Farming Week: Morty O’Sullivan, Dunshaughlin, Co Meath

Morty O’Sullivan is milking 128 cows with his wife, Lorraine, and four children in Co Meath.

4 September 2024 NEWS
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Call for safeguards to protect productive land from solar farms

Solar farms reduce the farmland available for young farmers to lease, according to the IFA's rural development chair.

28 August 2024 RENEWABLES

Three compact farms available in Meath

Three mid-sized farms will go under the hammer this month, writes Paul Mooney.

28 August 2024 PROPERTY
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Farmer Writes: what a dreary, dragged-out harvest this is

Gerald Potterton casts back to when he was just after getting married and was doing up his house.

28 August 2024
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