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Nightmare summer for farmers in the Callows

FARMERS in the Shannon Callows area who have lost thousands of acres of grass and winter feed this summer, held anoth...

Clarity needed on lime scheme

AGRICULTURE Minister, Charlie McConalogue, needs to provide ‘clarity and certainty’ as a matter of urgency on the Nat...

Uncertain autumn looming for cattle finishers

WESTERN cattle finishers are facing into an uncertain autumn with the country’s meat plants continuing to exert downw...

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Factories urged to look at long-term picture

THE ongoing spell of wet weather through the late summer period has helped to create ‘the perfect storm’ in terms of depressed market conditions fo...

Call for a deer cull in parts of South Galway

THERE have been calls this week for an effective deer culling programme to be put in place across parts of South Galway to help prevent serious roa...

Athenry was the wettest place in Ireland as the rains poured down

IT won’t come as a surprise to anyone but we’ve just endured our wettest ever July in Galway since records began. And Athenry – out of the 25 Me...

A huge turnout for Galway Wool sale and art exhibition

THERE was a huge turnout for last weekend’s Galway Wool Meitheal sale and exhibition    of produce in the Athenry Mart. A feature of this year’s...

Callows flooding nightmare continues

HUNDREDS of farmers in the Shannon Callows area – taking in parts of Galway, Offaly, Westmeath and Roscommon – are facing into an animal feed crisi...

Rewetting threat has not gone away: TD

INDEPENDENT Roscommon-Galway TD, Michael Fitzmaurice, has this week warned farmers and their representative organisations, that they are far from ‘...


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Nightmare summer for farmers in the Callows
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