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Farmers must be organised to ensure that agriculture stays at top of political agendas

THIS Thursday evening, Stephen Canavan, from Ardskeaghbeg, Ballyglunin, completes his four-year term as Galway IFA Ch...

A gloomy January but we avoided flood disasters

WHILE no one needs to be reminded about our wet autumn and winter weather, the West of Ireland escaped the extreme ra...

Galway IFA in Dublin Bord Bia Protest

GALWAY IFA Chair, Stephen Canavan, has vowed this week that their protest at the Bord Bia Head Office in Dublin will ...

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Athenry farmland could hit €20,000 an acre mark

IT mightn’t leave you much change out of a half-million euro . . . but a 24-acre holding near Athenry represents a once-off chance to acquire a chu...

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A good farming year reflected in tractor sales across country

A GENERALLY positive financial year in farming has been reflected in the sale of new tractors around the country in 2025, which were up by 14%, or ...

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MEPs are last hope of halting deal on Mercosur

FARMING organisations across the EU are poised to launch their most intensive ever lobbying of MEPs in a last ditch bid to halt the Mercosur trade ...

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Milk yield, calf health and thrive, are all parts of the dairy equation

COW-CALF contact in dairy herds was the subject of a recent Teagasc study at their Moorepark centre in Cork – a project carried out in the context ...

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MEPs are the last remaining hope to reject ‘flawed deal’ with South America

THE IFA has pledged to work with the European farmers and co-operative group – COPA-COGECA – to influence as many MEPs as possible to vote against ...

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Farmers urged to support big demo

FARMERS across the West of Ireland have been urged to ‘turn out in numbers’ in support of the anti-Mercosur public protest due to take place in Ath...


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