Tullamore is a show that is going from strength to strength, it was by far the biggest crowd I have ever seen attend the show this year and the organisers deserve huge credit for the effort they put in

It comes as the heifers and cows are due to calve over the next six weeks, writes Paula Hynes

Those of you who are weekly readers of my column will know myself and Pete celebrated our 30-year anniversary recently and he decided to surprise me with something that sparkles. I know, you are all thinking it was an amazing piece of jewellery.

The farmer in me, accustomed to taking on dirty jobs, rolled my sleeve and stepped forward

It is the little gestures at challenging times like these that make a huge difference to someone's day, writes Aherla dairy farmer Paula Hynes.

Becky headed off on New Year's Eve to Australia to prep some animals for a show there

With the farm fully organized after our trip to Edinburgh, I had the opportunity to get off the farm for the day with Pete on the Monday after Men's Health Day as he was speaking at the Cultivating Mental Wellbeing In Rural Ireland conference in ...

The predominantly Holstein herd certainly enjoys the combined comfort and herd health with average production now at over 12,000 ltrs per cow

While it is all well and good to be investing in public transport, building cycle lanes and putting infrastructure for charging electric vehicles, the reality is our country is only catching up on that work which should already have been done prior to now.

Missing school is not ideal — but we think Becky will return to classes armed with a head and a heart full of life experiences after the show in Somerset