GALWAY farmers are set to achieve an injection of over €17 million in Disadvantaged Areas Payments, DAS, announced on Wednesday by the Minister for Agriculture, Simon...
FARMERS who sell weanling heifers that are in-calf could end up facing bills of up to €800 in compensation, farm leaders and a mart manager have...
Farmers have been advised to ‘play it safe’ when it comes to the selling of weanlings directly from their yards to private operators. According to Co. Galway IFA...
EVERY year, the same question is put to Teagasc advisers by farmers: “When is the best time to apply lime?” Well, very simply, the answer is...
IT probably will be the way of the future for all farmers . . . the direct injection of slurry into the soil, eliminating the possible...
A ‘CLEAR the air’ statement last week by Agriculture Minister, Simon Coveney, on the hill/commonage crux is only ‘a step in the right direction’ and doesn’t...
About 200 farmers and close on 50 tractors launched another of their blitz demonstrations at the Lidl supermarket in Ballinasloe last week in protest over the...
DISGRUNTLED western hill farmers have this week staged a picket at the Castlebar Office of Taoiseach Enda Kenny ‘for as long as it takes’ to bring...
