West Cork is the venue for a celebration of dairy farming excellence this Friday, with a morning seminar followed by farm walk on an award-winning dairy farm.

Over 2,000 farmers gathered at Newford suckler demonstration farm in Athenry, Co Galway this week for an open day.

Newford Farm, the 100-cow suckler-to-beef demonstration herd launched in 2015 and located in Athenry, Co Galway, will host a national open day on Wednesday, May 25.

An international milk price comparison shows Dairygold Co-op paying more for milk in February than Glanbia or Kerry, in contrast to Irish milk price leagues which show it paying a lower price.

Talks aimed at resolving a row over beef prices are taking place in Dublin between farmers and factories.

The IFA has said more than 20 people have died on Irish farms so far this year, compared with 16 in 2013.

Macra na Feirme has started the process of appointing a programme manager to promote land mobility countrywide.

Tributes have poured in for Paddy O’Keeffe, chairman of the Agriculture Trust and former Irish Farmers Journal editor, who died peacefully at his home in Ballyhooley, Co Cork.

INNOVATIVE dairy farmers can compete for a prize fund of €40,000 on offer to new discussion groups being launched by Teagasc.

OFFALY dairy farmer Kevin Heavin has been selected as Macra na Feirme’s FBD Young Farmer of the Year after an exciting final in the Seafield Hotel, Gorey, Co Wexford, last night.

TWO important events for dairy farmers will take place next week as the joint winners of the ACCBank EBI dairy discussion group competition host dairy open days in Cork and Laois.

IRELAND has never used the veto in its 35-year membership of the European Union.

Disinfectant measures at ports and airports in the North to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease have ended, it emerged today.

A senior EU official has been summoned before an Oireachtas Committee amid growing concerns about unregulated Brazilian meat being sold in Irish shops.