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New 60% grant rate scheme for solar projects open for applications

IT'S not pie in the sky anymore when it comes to farmers being energy self-sufficient . . . now it’s a case of lookin...

Fertiliser is far too costly for spreading inaccurately

THE virtues of accurate and efficient fertiliser spreading have been extolled by Teagasc In their latest edition of T...

Fertiliser quandary needs to be sorted

MERCHANTS and co-ops have been told this week ‘to bite the bullet’ and to put in place a fair policy as regards ferti...

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January brought us a wet start but a very dry ending

TO borrow from the old match cliché, January – from a weather viewpoint – was a real month of two halves. We took a serious pounding of rain thr...

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Concerns with new suckler scheme

EXCESSIVE paperwork and unreasonable conditions could put off a cohort of farmers from joining the new suckler cow scheme which starts this year, a...

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Farmers are advised to get early advice on 2023 Nitrates Derogation requirements

MORE intensively stocked farmers – the vast majority of them in the dairy sector – have been advised by the Minister for Agriculture to ‘engage as ...

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Galway farmers to meet on crisis in sheep

GALWAY sheep farmers will get the chance to vent their feelings on the prices and cost crisis facing the sector at a meeting in Tuam next week. ...

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Query over Department’s BVD Stats

ALL may not be as the Dept. of Agriculture is painting it in relation to the prevalence of BVD in herds, according to a North Galway farmer who has...

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Angus breeders to hold charity auction of semen this weekend

IT’S no cock-and-bull story as a novel auction this weekend hopes to raise thousands of euros . . . by selling semen. Well over 100 lots of the ...


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