Liam Day planting open barley with a new Lemken Solitair 8 cavalcade beside Irving Oil Whitegate Refinery in Co. Cork on Thursday evening, Mar 26. Image source: Derek Delahunty There has been a large alleviation in dirt conditions over a past few days as good continue prevails. Soil dampness deficits (SMDs) have incited around with […]
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Image source: Lionel McConnell On Tuesday, Mar 24, Lionel McConnell from Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, got an surprising phone-call for a time of year. He wasn’t certain if what he was conference was true. His neighbour – Aidan McNally – who is a suckler rancher rang him to see if he would be means to scoop […]
“We are reaffirming a joining to support Irish farmers as vicious deadlines approach, while stability to work in line with HSE [Health Service Executive] and Government guidelines.” That was a summary now (Sunday, Mar 29) from a Agricultural Consultants Association (ACA). ACA boss Tom Canning explained: “As an vicious use in a rural industry, ACA […]
The series of dairy-bred calves innate – so distant this year – is adult by over 54,718 conduct or by 6% when compared to a same duration in 2019, sum from a Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) indicate. Beef calf registrations are also using good forward of final year’s levels – adult 19,828 conduct compared […]
Farming only outward Kells in Co. Meath, Mark Cassidy runs a flock of 370 spring-calving dairy cows, that has grown in substantial distance over a final few years. The devise for subsequent year is to be milking adult to 400 cows. This boost in cow numbers has put substantial aria on his stream comforts – generally […]
The Farm Tractor and Machinery Trade Association (FTMTA) has sensitive a members – in an email round – that they are no longer deliberate ‘essential businesses’ (in light of tighter, country-wide Covid-19 restrictions), saying: “Our trade is no longer in a difficulty of essential businesses that can continue comparatively normal operations.” This, a organization believes, […]
An updated list of retailers, that a Government has highlighted as essential adequate to stay open following new Covid-19 restrictions, has been released. Some businesses, that progressing this week had been deemed “essential”, have subsequently been told that they contingency work usually on an puncture call-out or smoothness basis; definition they can no longer open […]
Image source: Shane Casey The Government has motionless that everybody should stay during home until Apr 12, solely for a series of specific situations – one being for functions of work deemed an “essential service”. Numerous roles in agriculture, food production, machine and village work tumble into a tangible essential services difficulty – alongside other front-line […]
Dairy Industry Ireland (DII) has welcomed a announcement of a Government’s “essential services” worker list – though warns that poignant hurdles for a attention and suppliers are still fast-approaching. It a matter DII director, Conor Mulvihill, concurred that the list – announced as partial of a Government’s heightened Covid-19 quarrel devise – will give some […]
A clever warning has been released to landowners not to lift out any bootleg blazing of land by Minister for Agriculture, Food and a Marine Michael Creed. In a matter on a matter, a apportion said: “Given a stream puncture outset from a Covid-19 pandemic, it is some-more critical than ever that no one should […]