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Sheep
Top of €1,650 at Tullamore Vendéen sale
Adam Woods
Adam Woods reports from the Irish Vendéen Sheep Society Sale held in Tullamore at the weekend.
10 July 2024 Property
Ready-to-go outfarm in Roscommon on the market for €320k
This nice grassland holding comes with a shed and a basic, but modern, cattle handling unit, writes Paul Mooney.
3 July 2024 Dealer
Limousin or Angus?
The Dealer has news of a coming together of cattle breeds in the west at the weekend.
May was the warmest on record
May 2024 temperatures were above average everywhere and 1.74°C above the 1991 to 2020 long term average.
5 June 2024 News
Nice organic farm with elegant farmhouse
With Boyle town on one side and Lough Key on the other, the location of this 96ac farm – guided between €1.4m to €1.5m – has plenty going for it, writes Paul Mooney.
15 May 2024 Property
West can get more money from CAP - Flanagan
"People will ask where will that money come from? It will come from the Golden Vale," Luke Ming Flanagan has said.
8 May 2024 News
Pronar to host grass machinery working day in the west
Pronar is set to host a grassland working demonstration day in Roscommon on Saturday and Sunday, 11 and 12 May, from 10am.
1 May 2024 News
My Farming Week: Colin Kelly, Bealnamulla, Athlone, Roscommon.
Colin farms alongside his father on 40ac in Co Roscommon. They operate a suckler herd, selling weanlings in the mart at 10 months.
1 May 2024 News
Meal subsidy would be of more benefit to fodder-short farmers - TD
A meal subsidy would be more beneficial than the current transport scheme for west and northwest farmers short of fodder, Deputy Marian Harkin has said.
25 April 2024 News
Lough Funshinagh flooding: 'the worst year in living memory'
Farmers surrounding Lough Funshinagh highlighted that the situation is dire and that they are living in hope that water will recede.
17 April 2024 News
Ballaghaderreen to revive May Day fair tradition
Ballaghaderreen is set to revive the tradition of the May Day Fair next month.
17 April 2024 News
IFA seeks meeting with Minister O'Donnell on Lough Funshinagh
The Irish Farmers’ Association is seeking a meeting with Minister Kieran O’Donnell as Lough Funshinagh reaches crisis point.
15 April 2024 News