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New CAP aims to improve gender balance

MEASURES in the new CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) to increase and improve women’s participation in farming have be...

Looking into the future

CHANGING times in farming and fears about the future has prompted Galway IFA to hold a series of meetings across the ...

Accidents on farms ‘far higher than stats’

TEAGASC statistics of 4,500 non-fatal farm accidents every year are probably only a fraction of the true figure, acco...

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Ballinasloe to celebrate 300-years of fairs

THREE hundred years of horse fairs in Ballinasloe will be celebrated this coming weekend when the event returns following the Covid interruption of...

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Huge cow cull could be in the pipeline

WESTERN farm leaders have expressed alarm at reports that the Government could be considering a massive cull of the suckler cow herd to meet climat...

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Changes agreed on TB testing regime

A PROPOSED six-months testing requirement for all bovine animals moving herds will now only apply to cows and males over 36-months old, following d...

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The show goes on . . . for the 183rd time

JOHN HARNEY from Mountpleasant first joined the Ballinasloe Horse and Agriculture Show Committee, all of 60-years ago, on April 24, 1962. Both John...

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ACRES away from a proper scheme

THE new ACRES environmental scheme came in for scathing criticism at a Connacht IFA meeting this week with farm representatives describing it as be...

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Countdown to ‘Ploughing 2022’ gets under way for team Galway

Galway’s best plough men and women are counting down the days to next week’s National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, Co Laois, where an add...


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