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Progress stalls on age at slaughter reduction

Adam Woods has a look at the most recent slaughter age figures and how progress has stalled in making further reductions.

18 December 2024 NEWS
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Farmer Writes: a battle with front loader

Karen McCabe walked slap bang into the edge of the scoop on the front loader where she learned that head wounds do indeed bleed rather profusely.

18 December 2024
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Weekend weather: cloudy and drizzly, with temperatures to rise on Sunday

Temperatures are set to increase on Sunday, with a mild 10°C to 12°C forecast by Met Éireann.

13 December 2024 NEWS

Tillage Podcast: BYDV, US farming and Mercosur’s impact on tillage

On this week’s Tillage Podcast, Stephen Robb talks to the Irish Farmers Journal’s Pat O’Toole and Conor Kehoe and ITLUS’s Denis Dunne about Mercosur, aphids, the Rosenbohm US scholarship and much more

12 December 2024 NEWS

ICMSA calls on milk processors to pay end-of-year bonuses

The association made the statement to support farmers against the extreme difficulties experienced over the previous 18 months.

10 December 2024 NEWS

Examining nutrition and fungicides on beet crops

Nutrition needs to be watched in beet crops. Some crops were showing nitrogen and boron deficiency this year.

10 December 2024 NEWS

Farmer-focused CAP post-2027 approved in Brussels

EU agriculture ministers are pushing to maintain a separate and independent CAP containing two pillars post-2027.

9 December 2024 NEWS

Storm Darragh leaves almost 400,000 without power

A nationwide status yellow warning is in place until 3pm this Saturday following storm Darragh.

7 December 2024 NEWS

Red weather warning issued ahead of Storm Darragh

The red weather warning for wind, the highest level of caution Met Éireann can issue, is for seven western and northwestern counties.

6 December 2024 NEWS