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| Top Farming Story | Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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IFA wins councils’ backing in battle against WTO deal
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
EIGHTEEN County Councils around the country have now endorsed the IFA campaign to block Peter Mandelson’s attempts to push through a trade deal that would severely damage Irish agriculture.
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Seeds for expansion
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
MINISTER Trevor Sargent recently launched the Organic Farming Action Plan which outlines how the Minister plans to achieve the ambitious target of 5% of agricultural land certified as organic by 2012.
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Time for dock control
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
GRASSLAND is a very valuable resource and successful management of this crop is vital to the profitability of all livestock enterprises.
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Watching for redwater
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
REDWATER is a tick transmitted, zoonotic disease which causes considerable economic, medical and veterinary impact in late Spring and Summer.
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BSE age limit
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
MR Martin McMahon, Chairperson of ICMSA's Beef and Cattle Committee, has welcomed the decision of the EU Commission to raise the age limit at which the vertebral column must be removed from cattle from 24 to 30 months.
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Charolais head for Balla
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
CHAROLAIS were first introduced into Ireland in 1964 over forty years ago when 8 bulls & 9 heifers were imported from France.
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Month will focus on risks in farmwork
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
IFA Farm Family and Social Affairs Committee Chairperson, Mary Sherry has called on farmers to take extreme care with the onset of the busy season on farms.
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Time to vaccinate your stock against range of fatal infections
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
BLACKLEG
CLOSTRIDIAL infections of calves have been recognised for over 200 years as a cause of rapidly fatal disease in calves, states Darragh Quinn, Pharmacist, Crossmolina.
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Grass year begins in October, farmers told
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
MAYO Farmers were told that the grass year begins in October and not in spring at a recent County Mayo Teagasc farm walk on the farm of Michael Mellett at Mochara, Shrule.
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May 15 deadline for EU organic farming scheme
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
THE Minister for Food and Horticulture at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Trevor Sargent TD, has urged farmers wanting to join the new Organic Farming Scheme in 2008 to have their applications with the Department by May 15.
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Bred for success
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
ALLTECH has joined forces with Progressive Genetics for a ‘Bred for Success - 2008’ road show for Dairy Farmers in various locations around the West and Midlands from Monday, 7th April.
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Balla Mart report
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
EASTER Saturday saw a smaller sale but there was a good trade for all lots and a full clearance.
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Interested in a career in Horticulture?
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
MICK Hagan from the Salesian College of Horticulture, Warrenstown, Drumree, Co. Meath, has been in touch to let our readers know that the Salesian College of Horticulture in Warrenstown, Co. Meath, are having an Open Day at the college on Wednesday 2nd April.
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Further farmer frustration
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
ICSA Rural Development Chairman and Sligo county chairman Gabriel Gilmartin said that the announcement of concessions for farmers joining REPS 4 only goes some of the way to resolving the issue and will actually lead to further farmer frustration.
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O’Donnell welcomes forest scheme launch
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
JOHN O'Donnell, Ballina farmer and chairperson of the ICMSA Rural Development Committee, has given a qualified welcome to the launch of the remaining forestry schemes under the 2007 - 2013 afforestation plan.
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