Ploughing 2017: Or as it will forever be known, That Wednesday of the Ploughing That Year With All The Rain. 

FARM plastic recycling takes another step forward at next week’s National Ploughing Championships, with a Northern Ireland based company offering farmer a deal whereby big bale wrap plastic can be leased, and returned for recycling after the silage is eaten.

MUNSTER farmers feature among the inventors in the re-launched Innovations Arena at the National Ploughing Championships.

THE middling farmer is centre stage in new ideas circulating at the Ploughing.

A “GREENER” and easier way to travel to next week’s National Ploughing Championships at Athy, Co Kildare is on offer from Iarnród Éireann and Bus Éireann.

NEXT month’s National Ploughing Championships will stage Ireland’s only full livestock exhibition in 2007, after Sunday’s Tullamore Show and AIB National Livestock Show was cancelled due to floods.

LIMOUSIN breeder Dan Tynan of Mountrath, Co Laois, seems assured of a big attendance for his Ardlea herd production sale next Saturday, October 7.

PERHAPS the best investment of €1,500 which many farmers discovered at the Ploughing was the cost of making an application to the Farm Waste Management Grant Scheme.

TORRENTIAL rain at the Ploughing Championships left farmers worrying about the livestock back home, and fearing damage to precious late grazing which could play a vital role in staving off a winter feed crisis.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern went to the wire on Plot 20 at the World Ploughing Championships in Grangeford, Tullow, Co Carlow, yesterday.