The new nitrates band screen is now available to all dairy farmers on the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) website.

The Minister for Agriculture announced the new scheme with €4m in funding which the IFA claims must be built on to adequately ...

While the shamrock is synonymous with Irish culture, its cousin, the white clover, is making waves in the world of ...

Dairy farmers say they can no longer absorb a ... cheese, and butter. Irish dairy cows produce over eight billion litres of milk annually, but in the last year wholesale dairy production costs ...

Methane is an immensely challenging problem for the Irish dairy ... farm animals, adds Dewhurst. “It’s all about making a start now breeding for reduced methane emissions.” The Cool Cows ...

Dairy producers are increasingly putting internet-connected collars and ear tags on their cows, helping better track the ...

Agri Aware’s Farm Walk & Talk events welcomed over 4,100 secondary school agriculture science students over a span of three ...

“Once the animal’s genotyped, then the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation ... it costs about €1,500 to rear a dairy heifer, so if we can tell the farmer when the calf is born that she has ...

Irish industry ... the need for dairy farmers to reduce numbers in order to milk on the same land block or increase the land block in order to milk the same number of cows. "Typically, the latter ...