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This week in photos: sowing and silage
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Our top photos from the past week include farmers feeding ewes, sowing maize, preparing soil for cabbage, putting cows out to grass after milking, harvesting silage, packing pit silage and more.
26 April 2023 Footprint Farmers
Assessing clover to cut nitrogen in north Tipperary
The Irish Farmers Journal carried out clover scoring on Barry Powell's farm last week, Ellen Durkin reports.
19 April 2023 Farm machinery
Pöttinger Combi Impresses in Antrim
Gary Abbott caught up with James Moore to find out why Pöttinger’s Impress combination baler was his machine of choice.
Study finds hygiene varies in NI calf sheds
The study, which involved scientists from the Agri Food and Biosciences Institute and Queen’s University Belfast, was led by PhD student Aaron Brown.
19 April 2023 Northern Ireland
Watch: this week in photos
Our top photos from the past week include farmers feeding livestock, spreading fertiliser and urea and sowing spring barley.
16 April 2023 News
The Grass Week: growth creeping towards matching demand
While wet weather over the past week has hampered grazing efforts, conditions are set to improve, with rising temperatures over the weekend.
15 April 2023 Grass & feeding
Tough spring taking its toll
Shane Dobson talks to some farmers around the country as to how they are dealing with the current weather conditions.
12 April 2023 News
Abbey announces factory expansion and a shift to renewables
Abbey Machinery has expanded production facilities by 10,000sqft, a move expected to increase throughput by 20%.
6 April 2023 News
Time to invest in our youth
Macra president John Keane has highlighted how the people who are going to lead the changes required in agriculture are young farmers.
5 April 2023 Community
Where there's livestock, there's deadstock
Karen McCabe has an orphaned calf after she lost a cow with a uterine prolapse.
29 March 2023 Farmer Writes
Weather woes on Tullamore Farm
Adam Woods has the latest report from the Irish Farmers Journal beef and sheep farm.
24 March 2023 Management
Five tips to managing cows and calves until turnout
Wet conditions are expected to continue into next week, delaying plans to turn spring calving cows and calves out to grass on many farms.
18 March 2023 Management