Demand and supply remain finely balanced with opening quotes for quality assured lambs at €8.70/kg and top prices hitting ...

Set against the County Londonderry backdrop of the McFarlane family farm, SheepNI 2025 will take place on Tuesday, July 1 and provide a valuable opportunity for LMC to engage with sheep farmers ...

From today (Monday, June 30), only XI prefixed tags can be used to identify newborn cattle, sheep, and goats in Northern Ireland. A spokesperson for the Department of Agriculture, Environment and ...

The 12-month transitional period to allow livestock keepers time to use up stocks of ‘UK’ prefixed livestock tags has now ended. This means that from today only ‘XI’ prefixed tags should be used to ...

This year’s Bank of Ireland Open Farm Weekend schools’ day was a resounding success, with over 1,700 pupils visiting farms ...

Ralph Sheppard is an ecologist living in Donegal, where he has been monitoring the birds since the 1950s. This is an extract ...

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Bluetongue disease could arrive in Ireland before the summer is out, according to scientists at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute.

A rise in farm incomes in Northern Ireland in 2024 has been welcomed. Estimates indicate the total income from farming in the ...

The show first started airing in 2016 and has been praised by many fans as it gives an insight into the lives of farmers ...

Additional funding for sheep can be found outside of the £300M annual budget that has been ring fenced by the Stormont ...

From April to October, ewes at Mansergh Hall Farm, near Kirkby Lonsdale, will parade into a milking parlour every day to produce the raw material which is made into cheese under the farm’s own brand ...