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Avondhu Macra to host fundraising walk
Grace Hoare
The region is looking to raise much-needed funds for the club and proceeds from the raffle will be donated to Embrace Farm.
26 June 2024 Footprint Farmers
Farmers turn out for farm walk in Co Waterford
Over 80 farmers attended the Irish Farmers Journal's Footprint Farmers walk hosted by Pádraig Connery in Clashmore, Co Waterford.
26 June 2024 News
Farmer views: average yields expected and uncertainty ahead for harvest
At the Footprint Farmers walk in Co Waterford, tillage farmers highlighted how the difficult sowing conditions have left them expecting lower yields for this year’s harvest. Kelsey Daly reports.
Stressed maize and awn emergence on spring barley
This week, Conor Kehoe talks to farmers in Kilkenny, Waterford, and Down as sunshine returns and irrigation of potatoes begins in earnest.
26 June 2024 Crops
Dawn Meats to expand Waterford plant and up supplies to Aldi by 35%
The meat processor is to invest €5m to fill €125m deal with Aldi.
17 June 2024 News
Prime land sits just outside Dungarvan
The biggest portion is described as prime agricultural land, the balance is elevated and may suit forestry, writes Paul Mooney.
12 June 2024 Property
€15,000/ac guide price for Waterford land
The holding is going to auction on Thursday 13 June – one lot is already sale agreed and another is under offer.
6 June 2024 News
103ac farm on the Suir comes with fishing rights
This big grass farm is in valuable edge-of-town location in Co Tipperary, writes Paul Mooney.
5 June 2024 Property
Crops and field margins in Waterford
Pádraig Connery is aiming to improve the three pillars of sustainability – economic, environmental and social – on his farm in Clashmore, Co Waterford.
29 May 2024 News
Flag leaf sprays on wheat and thriving spring barley
This week, Conor Kehoe talks to farmers in Westmeath, Down, and Waterford as farmers try to get spraying done between the showers.
29 May 2024 Crops
€18,000/ac land near coast road in Waterford
The land is on the coast road, about 500m from the sea, and is in permanent pasture, writes Paul Mooney.
22 May 2024 Property
Former CEO of Irish Sugar and Heinz Tony O'Reilly dies
Having established the Kerrygold brand while in Bord Bainne, O'Reilly headed Irish Sugar before rising through the Heinz Corporation to become its CEO.
19 May 2024 News