Curtain comes down on Chessy Suffolk flock after a 46-year connection with the breed
ONE of the country’s best known Suffolk breeders is having a final dispersal sale in Athenry Mart on Friday week next, November 9, at 7pm – an event that’s expected to draw a large...
Planning is key to transfer of farms
PLAN rather than postpone – that’s the advice from Galway IFA and Galway Macra to farmers in regards to succession issues that have to be faced up on all farms at some time.
With that...
More Gardaí sought in rural areas
THE setting up of a specialised Garda Rural Crime Task Force – similar to one introduced in different parts of the UK over recent years – has been called for by the IFA to...
Burren Winterage Weekend will celebrate the link between local farmers and the environment
IT’S a special few days for farmers in the Gort, Kinvara and North Clare region with the holding of the Burren Winterage Weekend – an event that highlights the link between nature and the...
1,500 tonnes of tyres left for recyling in big farm clean-up
AN estimated 1,500 tonnes of unwanted tyres on Galway farms were collected for recycling on Saturday last in Athenry Mart as part of a nationwide scheme subsidised by the Dept. of the Environment.
Over 800...
Suckler scheme: a step in the right direction
GETTING a bigger and better weanling from a smaller and more feed efficient cow, seems to be the long-term strategy behind the latest suckler cow initiative announced in last week’s Budget ‘19.
Minister for Agriculture,...