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"Let’s break the cycle around the silence; lets break the cycle around the stigma associated with mental health challenges."
Break the Cycle is a four week campaign running in
@IrishCountryLiv
raising mental health awareness in rural Ireland, a campaign by the Irish Farmers
How cute is this👇
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Katie and Seán Daly from Co Kilkenny having dinner outside their gate while waiting for their Grandad Petey to pass on the tractor to give him a wave 👋 Social distancing at its best 👋
#FarmingFightsBack
#StaySafeStayAtHome
Kildare farmer Johnny Connolly took this footage of a whirlwind or as it is known in Ireland traditionally a sí gaoithe, translated to 'fairy wind'. It is caused by a swirling updraft of air during sunny conditions. Johnny said it left a track of 100ft wide through the hay.
Ireland should legalise the growing of cannabis so farmers can get paid for it, rather than the Kinahan gang, according to Luke Ming Flannagan MEP.
He also said that farmers should be allowed to grow more hemp and feed it to their cattle.
Peanut the calf enjoying her last night by the fire before heading out to the heating bulb in the shed🔥
Peanut was born two-months premature, weighing just 10kg, she is now two-weeks-old 📸Jessica Campbell, Co Donegal 👏
This is how you catch a lamb👇👏🏻
Three-year-old Rachel Nee from Recess, Co Galway, helping her Dad and uncle Conor on their farm🐏
#farmingfightsback
#futurefarmer
Have you seen The
@IFJDealer
's photo pick yet, in this week's Irish Farmers Journal? It's Séan Kent's flock of 600 geese, who live in Wicklow. This is the story behind the photo...
Recommended reading (free): Justin McCarthy writes on how Irish farmers are being incentivised to reduce beef production only for it to be replaced by a production system that is dependent on the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
Not something you see everyday👇 Tony Bergin from Cooleshall in Roscrea, Co Tipperary, feeding a fox in his farm yard🦊
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Credit to his daughter Antoinette for sending this in📸
You are never too young to learn from the master!!
William Galvin from Knockroe, Passage East, with his grandson William Barron. Both are ready and planning for the day ahead 📸Nicky Barron
What are ewe doing in there? 👀
Thanks to sheep farmer Liam Woods from Castletowncooley, Co Louth, for sending us in this photo of a ewe with her lambs taking shelter from the wind in a fallen tree 📸
The Department of Agriculture has proposed that scrub or other non-agricultural features be included in the definition of an eligible hectare in the next CAP.
The
@farmersjournal
has grown its print readership to 263,000 weekly readers in the ROI. With 8,000 new readers, we now have the fastest growing readership of any newsprint publication in the country - thank you for your support!
This week Pat O'Toole joined the Farm Tech Talk team for the first time. Most of the time things go smoothly but....After an hour trying to get a good enough internet connection from Wexford he was finally ready to join in when this happened....😂
@potooleifj
@ajwwoods
Look what this contractor found while baling 👇
"This is a baby fawn deer which was lying in a row of grass which I was bailing, it's mother ran away with the noise. I lifted it to safety and got it reunited with its mother." - Donal McGovern, Co Fermanagh 📸
#silage21
Phil Hogan resigns as Commissioner for Trade - in a single week Irish farmers have lost the Minister for Agriculture and the influential Commissioner for Trade with Brexit and CAP reform hurtling towards them. Read the latest inside this week's
@farmersjournal
on sale now.
'It is a beauty to behold, when you see the purple and gold' 💜 💛
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Wexford contractor Tom Horan baling purple and gold bales for John O'Sullivan of Kilmuckridge, ahead of the All-Ireland hurling semi-final against Tipperary. If that's not dedication, what is 😅
@OfficialWexGAA
That time of year again for some happy cows! Thanks to Brendan O'Neill who has just let the cows out to grass for the first time this year.
#grass18
#grazing18
Sheepdogs Peggy, Bridie and Rosie working from home, watching the first lamb of the season pass by🐑
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📸 Bernie Tennyson, Thomastown Co Kilkenny
#farmingfightsback
#covid19
Over 1,300 farmers will attend the
@farmersjournal
's
#beefsummit
in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway tonight. This 2-minute video explains why the beef industry is so important to rural Ireland with 52,000 jobs at risk is nothing is done to protect it.
@rtenews
@VirginMediaNews
@ajwwoods
'Keep your friends close and your enemies closer'
A very unusual picture sent into us by Denise Murray, she took the picture on her farm in Coolarne, Co Galway📸
Our headline speaker at the
#AgriCareers
Expo on February 14, Pat McDonagh of
@SupermacsIRE
has just won a landmark case against global giants McDonalds. Click the link to register for FREE -
The
@farmersjournal
now has 295,900 weekly readers on the island of Ireland. This is the highest readership figure reported by the newspaper in the past 20 years! Thank you to all our loyal readers across print and digital.
The cat that got the cream. The resident stray cat on Eamon Sheehan’s farm tries to reap the rewards of the early calvers in the milking parlour in Cuffesgrange, Kilkenny.
Brexit countdown: This is the week the UK leaves the EU and the
@farmersjournal
will each day explore the issues of what it is likely to mean for farmers. With expert commentary and analysis, we'll have all you need to know on
#Brexit
When the boss comes back home👏
The animals were delighted to see their owner, Dick Brennan from Castlecomer, home after a hip replacement📸 Eileen Dormer
Anthony Murphy was “gobsmacked” on Tuesday night of this week when he discovered a never-seen-before giant henge monument in the Boyne Valley not far from Newgrange.
Don't miss your FREE 96-page Ploughing 2019 magazine inside this week's
@farmersjournal
! It contains everything you need to know including a detailed site map, exhibitor listings, event programmes and directions on how to get there and where to park!
#Ploughing19
#thisisfarming
An iconic photo of silage contractors sitting down for a social distance dinner at Lar and John French's farm in Adamstown, Co Wexford🚜
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📸Anne French
#covid19
#lockdown2020
#silage2020
Lawmakers in Rome voted to ban lab-grown meat, making Italy the first country in the world to outlaw such proteins.
This comes just as Beyond Meat launches their own fake pepperoni.
The University of Oxford found that even treated sewage has a stronger impact on water quality than pollution from agriculture.
See the full Oxford results on water quality below.
This Monday 3rd February the Irish Farmers Journal will hold a live farming debate at 7.30pm. You can tune in by clicking the link below. We spoke to farmers in Cork and asked what they are looking for from a new government
#GE2020
Leitrim suckler farmer Karen McCabe demonstrates how to make a St Brigid's Day cross.
"I am pretty sure everywhere has rushes, they are probably something Leitrim could export at this stage."
@LadyHaywire
#StBrigidsDay
Last day of sixth year vibes🤠🚜
Peadar, Ryan and Shane from Ramsgrange Community School in Co Wexford drove their tractors into school to mark their final day in sixth year🚜 Best of luck in the Leaving Cert from the
@farmersjournal
👍
BREAKING: Pig farmers are holding their second protest in less than a week to highlight low prices and imported produce in
@SuperValuIRL
with
@IFAmedia
Are you looking for a new
#COVID19
challenge❓
Why not head out to the lambing shed and give the “Social Dist-Dancing Jive Challenge” a go💃😅 The idea was launched by GetUp AndJive & Gràinne Gavigan Music👏🏻
Michael Healy Rae speaking from the Beef Plan protest where he said in no uncertain terms that all Irish TDs should be opposed to the Mercosur trade deal
“Rugby and farming are my top loves” - CJ Stander. Best of luck to Team Ireland in the match today - dairy/vegetable farmer CJ is one man we'll be cheering for. Read more at
#teamofus
#shouldertoshoulder
#sixnations
#IREvWAL