Setting achievable and realistic targets for your growing stock on grass is important in order to reach the weights required for sale or housing next winter for breeding or further feeding in 2024.

Dear Karen,  I have been approached by a developer, and they are interested in placing a solar farm on my land, along with some neighbouring landowners.

Dear Stephen,I own a farm, which I am in the process of selling as I wish to retire and move abroad to sunnier climates.   I never married and have no children or family relatives that helped on the farm.

I had the pleasure of making a presentation at the Ballinadee Community Hall last week, along with speakers from the Cork-based Kinsale Your Support Services and Make the Moove, a Macra na Feirme initiative aimed at supporting farm families mental ...

With his rugged, yet charming way, Denis reckons he can convince a banker or two to help him snag the €10m farm at Dowth.

From a calving complication to the Emerald Expo - it's been a rollercoaster start to show season in Aherla, but the Hynes girls are rising to the challenge.

Quite a bit of silage has been cut over the last week or so. Quality from these cuts will be fantastic once they are ensiled well.

We had a lovely break away celebrating our 22nd wedding anniversary in Paris - a rare chance to take a break, switch off and recharge the batteries.

A king like Charles cannot command without his crown, and a farmer like me cannot rule his own Kingdom without the Green Cert, writes Farming columnist Denis Lehane.

Evaluating overall uterine health is one of the most important aspects of the scan, writes farm vet Hazell Mullins.

Our son has a gambling addiction; we want to provide for him in our will but are worried he will gamble it all away.

He has erected pillars on either side of the entry point of the laneway and erected a locked gate preventing us from using it. What should I do?

Dear Stephen, I am a tillage farmer and also have some cattle. I have decided to take on two employees to assist me particularly with the summer season.

Only 5% of french artisan butchers are female, but they are celebrated for the craft and skill they have developed along with their passion for quality food. Paula Hynes meets one of them in Paris.

April marks the beginning of the Nematodirus risk period, an enemy of lambs throughout Ireland that can strike extremely suddenly.

The disadvantage of procrastinating is obvious - time simply waits for no man.

With the Irish food industry and farmers still depending on the UK for 19% of the value of Irish food and drink exports, the start of full border checks going into England, Wales, and Scotland poses a significant challenge in the autumn.

Terminating a lease can be a difficult and protracted process, writes solicitor Stephen Coppinger.

Magic totally blew us away. Seeing for the first time in real life, she was even better than what we had expected and has a great little personality too.

Modern heat detection systems range from collars and ear tags to bolus systems - and all have their merits.

Always one to have his ear to the ground, Farming columnist Denis Lehane tries his hand at grass whispering in this week's Lighten Up.

The brain surgeons of Ireland have less pressure than the farmer selling stock, writes Farming columnist Denis Lehane.

The story of little calf “Red” gripped the agri community on Instagram over the Easter holidays - my Dad even got asked about him at mass on Easter Sunday, writes farm vet Hazell Mullins.

Anything that will stand still could well be getting a haircut in the near future, on the Hynes farm over the next few weeks. 

We now have two late cows to calve before the official end of calving 2023, and I am just about back to reality after my fantastic hen weekend in Dunowen house near Clonakilty.

If there are alien-inhabited planets, of course, that means there are alien farmers too, writes Denis Lehane in this week's Lighten Up.

For many, the winter has not yet finished, as stock have been rehoused or haven’t seen grass yet. But the show must go on, and for most suckler and dairy farmers, the spring breeding season has or is soon going to start.

It has been a week of excitement and sickness with the dreaded flu raising its ugly head in our household. Becky was the first to get it - a bad sore throat, aches and pains, temperature and sinus infections.

It's been a busy couple of week on the farm, with preparing for weaning meaning it's disbudding time for the calves on the farm. I have to admit it is one of those essential job that I dread and will happily find any excuse to delay.

If you find a cow with the 'staggers', time is of the essence in treating this serious disease, writes Hazell Mullins

There’s been much debate about the revelation a record 4,556 calves were slaughtered in Ireland in the first week of this month. Department figures show that in 2018, 16,788 calves were culled. However, by last year, this had jumped to 29,495.

Your cows talk to you each day through their performance, demeanour, and health status, don’t ignore them, writes independent ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy.

If your husband left you nothing in his will, you may still have legal rights to a portion of his estate, writes solicitor Karen Walsh.

I don't know about you guys, but I have had enough of this weather already. The ground is soaked and a soggy mess.

Irish Examiner Farming columnist Denis Lehane has become the latest Irish celebrity to rule himself out of the Late Late Show job.

Restoring an old boundary wall can be a headache for some - particularly where neighbours disagree.

Dairy and suckler herds will be hoping to turn out weanlings to grass as soon as possible - some out of necessity due to an ever-dwindling reserve of fodder.

Your weekly reminder of the things that should be at the top of your farm to-do list. Published every Monday on the Irish Examiner digital Farming hub.

Agri watchers might have noticed something out of place on Inisherin Island.

While things have calmed down on the calving front with fewer than 30 cows left to calve, the weather has made life difficult.

This March is certainly living up to the saying “March of many weathers”, and I am hoping at some point we eventually meet the lamb from the old Almanac saying “in like a lion out like a lamb”.

Dear Stephen,  We are married a number of years and I am in the process of splitting up with my spouse. We are living the same house but have not been in a relationship as such for over a year.

It has been an incredibly colourful week here on the farm with the arrival of some beautiful new calves, but the real highlight has been that 'Granny', our 13-year-old jersey, finally gave birth.

Ag-tech is a flourishing industry, having exploded from a $1bn annual global spend in 2012, to $10.2bn a decade later in 2022.