Robin Talbot: What to do if you’re short of first-cut silage

Mart trade stays steady despite factory price pulls

The Newford herd targeted a wage €35,000/yr from sucklers – after eight years subsidies are still critical

Beef Prices: Calls for action as differential between Irish and British steer prices hits 48c/kg

My red clover silage is giving great yield – with no chemical fertiliser

Decline in numbers applying for new SCEP suckler scheme mirror’s decline in cow numbers

Deere lifts profit outlook as farm-equipment business booms

How this revolutionary new trailing shoe could solve a major TAMS 3 problem

Wexford farmer’s six-month project to restore his late father’s 43-year-old David Brown

Number of second hand tractors imported into Ireland surges by 40%

Cyclists and pedestrians should ‘stay off the road’ when silage harvesting is underway - HSA senior advisor

New Defender is a classy combination of luxury and function

UK Retailers Question 'Clumsy' Effort to Cap Food Prices

Why this Meath man quit his engineering job to run a pig farm and produce premium salami

Tirlán generates €5.5bn in 2022 on back of bumper milk prices

How the Chinese retail sector is changing and what it means for Irish exporters

Credit unions up pressure on pillar banks with new low-interest agri loan

Irish beef exporters need ‘very clear positioning’ to succeed in China

Gillian O’Sullivan: Learning lessons from the costly loss of a replacement calf

Eamon O’Connell: ‘Dial before you dose’ – the future of your herd is at stake… plus your vet could save you money

How to balance the workload when dairy farming hots up

Department pressures Teagasc to withhold key banding report

Revealed: €600m budget needed to cull 65,000 cows every year for three years to meet climate goals

Martin O’Sullivan: What margin should a ‘typical’ dairy farm have this year?

Why this Meath farmer will keep growing beans despite this year’s poor establishment

Lush wheat fields across Europe are keeping grain prices low

How to avoid costly trace element deficiencies in late-sown crops

US makes rare wheat imports from Europe after drought ravages crops

Andrew Bergin: How busting ground can give valuable results with little disturbance

Angus Woods: Tillage farmers need CAP-funded crop insurance to save them from ruin

Dealing with the 
fall-out from bad weather at lambing

Factories push for lamb price cuts but €8/kg still ‘very achievable’

John Fagan: Sheep farmers were hit hard by Brexit turmoil – we deserve compensation

Lamb Prices: Factories not having it all their own way in attempt to pull prices

Tightening numbers loosen factories’ grip on trade

How French sheep farmers are learning to live with the reintroduction of wolves

Concrete company pays €22,400/ac for Tipperary land

Cooltown– a 143ac, €1.43m Meath farm made for the laid back

458ac Westmeath farm makes over €4.5m in post-auction sale

€7.75m for 535ac Kilkenny estate with period mansion, four yards and a serious farming pedigree

44.5ac with development potential on outskirts of Granard for €550,000-650,000

€1.645m for well-equipped 163ac Offaly farm with accommodation for 150 cattle

‘I’ve worked on the family farm all my life. My parents always said they’d leave it to me, but what if they don’t make a will?’

IFA lobbies Law Society to give pre-nups legal standing

5 things to consider before you make your will

I have been running my elderly bachelor neighbours’ farm for years and they signed a letter leaving it to me. But now their nephew is back and says he is taking over. Where do I stand?

Legal advice: A contractor spreading slurry for me put a ramp over a pipe across a road and a driver says it caused him to crash. Am I liable?

‘My brother says I should get my fiancee to sign a prenup to prevent a breakup of the family farm if we divorced. Is he right?’

Angus Woods: IFA Presidential Election revamp is needed to eradicate big-county advantage

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Richard Hackett: Schemes would be dead in the water without advisors

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Joe Barry: How planting the right trees can help the bees – and save our own species

A swarm of bees arrived recently and set up home in one of my house chimneys. …

Margaret Donnelly: IFA in desperate need of passionate election candidates to ignite interest in presidential race

I remember reading an April Fools article in the wake of the IFA election …

Jim O’Brien: I feel like I’m in the confessional with brazen speakerphone train passengers

One doesn’t have to work hard at being an eavesdropper these days. Loud …

Darragh McCulough: They want us to replant, rewet and rethink – but they can’t overlook the emotional cost

I found myself in a room of environmentalists, scientists and the occasional …