Irish agriculture, farm business, livestock, crops, machinery, rural affairs and market conditions.
Ireland is spending heavily to revive town centres, yet 81,000 residential units and more than 30,000 commercial properties remain classified as vacant. The contradiction…
Read articleIrish property prices continue to outpace supply while rents absorb large shares of household income and mortgage rules leave some working households unable to…
Read articleLate-August rain has begun reversing severe soil-moisture deficits, but it cannot restore silage already fed or crops already damaged. Farms across Ireland’s east and…
Read articleFrom blockades over fuel prices to sit-ins over Brazilian beef, Irish farmers have mounted some of the largest demonstrations in a generation. Behind the…
Read articleIreland’s 2026 harvest is advancing unusually early after a season that moved from a difficult wet start into prolonged warm and dry conditions. More…
Read articleIrish beef farming is not one business model but several very different ones. A suckler farmer selling weanlings, a dairy-calf-to-beef operator, a store buyer…
Read articleA new EU farm budget, the Mercosur trade deal, stricter water rules, nature restoration, climate targets and sharply higher input pressures are converging just…
Read articleIrish sheep breeding is moving beyond choosing a ram on appearance alone. Genomic evaluations, €uro-Star indexes, performance recording and increasingly precise health management are…
Read articleFrom practical dairy and sheep farm walks to some of Ireland’s best-known agricultural shows, the period from 11 to 25 August 2026 offers farmers…
Read articleIreland now has more than 200,000 tractors on its farms and a machinery industry estimated to contribute almost €5 billion to the economy. John…
Read articleFamine, land reform, emigration, mechanisation, European integration and global trade transformed Irish agriculture beyond recognition. Today’s farmer operates in a productive, export-driven and technologically…
Read articleHigh pressure is giving Ireland a largely dry start to the week, but temperatures are set to rise sharply from Tuesday. Leinster and the…
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