GALWAY grain growers are enjoying a solid harvest return with very good quality corn mainly due to the July heatwave – but they are facing up...
BY ANTHONY O’CONNOR TO scan or not to scan? That is the question facing many suckler farmers at present. In recent years, the number of suckler...
MORE than 350 farmers from County Galway have been handed out penalties as a result of farm inspections carried out over the past year – the...
It was something of an emotional occasion when Gus Egan retired as the long-serving manager of Loughrea Mart having had a 43 year long association with...
The farming community in Galway have been urged to be on the look-out for scams involving the sale of equipment which is “too good to be...
THE IFA’s top national representative on flooding problems has hit out at what he described as the ‘absolute waffle’ last week of Junior Minister, Ciaran Cannon,...
THE Connemara Pony Festival that runs this year in Clifden from Sunday, August 11 to 18, will be a far greener affair with a number of...
IT seems to be now only a matter of ‘where and when’ as regards a major farmer protest over the falling price of beef at the...