Demand for places on agricultural courses looks set to remain sky high as Leaving Certificate students submitted their college choices through the Central Applications Office (CAO) ahead of last Wednesday's deadline.Application numbers for university pla
The sale of the last of Teagasc's organic cattle from its Athenry research station attracted a big crowd to the ringside at Athenry Mart on Thursday.With 30 cows and seven heifers on offer, the animals represented the last of the organic suckler herd. Ho
The search has begun for a new home for the next generation herd of elite cows that Teagasc is starting to assemble.The State body stepped into the breach when no suitable funding for the €1m project could be sourced. However, the loss of the Ballydague
The best in Irish dairy genetics is being sourced by Teagasc for a 'super' herd which will be based close to its research farm in Moorepark, Co Cork.The elite herd will be used in a new research programme which aims to assess how extremely high EBI cows
The future of the Teagasc BETTER Farm beef programme has been thrown into doubt due to uncertainty regarding funding for the initiative.Reports within the sector suggest that securing budgets to keep the programme going is proving difficult.The 15 farmer
Dairy and cattle farmers across the north and west of the country are coming under severe pressure as their slurry storage nears capacity.While the end of the closed period for slurry spreading is in sight, for some of the worst affected counties, such a
Most of us have packets of food lurking at the back of the cupboard which are long past their best-before date. But as so many Irish households cut back on their grocery spend, is it a false economy to eat food that is out of date?A survey by the Food Sa
It should be one of the healthiest jobs, but Irish farmers are not doing enough exercise.That's the conclusion of a study which looked at the health of Irish farmers and found only one in two were involved in physical activity in their leisure time.This
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