1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (404+ words) Quotes for lowland wool have increased by a further 10c/kg in the last fortnight and now range from 65c/kg to 70c/kg. This is double what was paid by local merchants for wool last year and comes on the back of…...

6+ hour, 16+ min ago  (490+ words) Farmers are paying "20-30/ac more for pit silage this summer and "2-4/bale more for baled silage, as the hike in diesel prices and labour costs combined to push up contractor charges. There are big variations in prices for both pit…...

10+ hour, 24+ min ago  (360+ words) Electronic identification (EID) in cattle tags will be available in NI on a voluntary basis from August 2026, a senior DAERA official has said. Speaking at Stormont last week, Darrin Fullerton said changes to the department's livestock traceability system have been…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1311+ words) The suckler-to-beef system is run alongside a 230-head mid-season lambing ewe flock and 60-head ewe lamb flock, which lamb as yearlings. Sunnyhill Farm is part of Teagasc's Future Beef Programme and majors on doing the simple things right and maximizing…...

14+ hour, 10+ min ago  (233+ words) Irish Farmers Journal The finding from the National Dairy Council that more than half of children under 12 have never seen a cow being milked should be a national wake-up call. We are raising children with less and less understanding of…...

14+ hour, 57+ min ago  (322+ words) A breeding cattle sale in Swatragh Livestock Mart on Friday saw a top price of "5, 650 paid for a 2020-born Limousin cow with a Charolais heifer calf at foot. In general, the highest priced lots on the evening were mostly made…...

8+ hour, 30+ min ago  (152+ words) Killeen Farmhouse Cheese has achieved what many Irish people dream of " they have beaten the Brits at their own game and they've done it with goats. The Co Galway cheesemaker scooped the supreme champion prize at the British and Irish…...

14+ hour, 43+ min ago  (313+ words) Big landowners who do no real farming activity "other than throwing a few cattle or sheep or donkeys" on large acreages are in Fine Gael's firing line in the next CAP. Fine Gael MEP for Ireland South, Se'n Kelly has…...

9+ hour, 59+ min ago  (176+ words) A beef event jointly organised by CAFRE and the UFU takes place on Wednesday 10 June at Greenmount campus in Antrim. The event has two components, with a conference starting at 9. 30am and a visit to the Beef and Sheep Centre at…...

10+ hour ago  (308+ words) The chair of the UFU beef and lamb committee Brendan Kelly has said beef processors have moved "too far and too fast" in cutting prices. The Randalstown farmer maintained that some finishers are now losing at least "350 per head, yet…...