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Just shy of 1800 Hereford cows coming down for pregnancy scanning and TB testing at Beaumont Station, Central Otago, New Zealand 🐂
📸 Toby Lagan
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Check out Joe O'Loughlen's outdoor calving camera in action. Joe uses a drone to keep an eye on his cattle in the Burren, Co Clare. Who says farmers can't do technology? 🤣
📹 Joe O'Loughlen, Burren, Co Clare
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One man and his dog! 🐶👨🌾
Looks like this hardworking Aussie farmer had a busy afternoon rounding up more than 2000 hoggets for drenching 🐑
📹
@Ausfarmalbums
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Happy hour in Norrby gård, Stockholm Sweden 🐑 🇸🇪
📸 Tomas Olsson
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There's 3 months between these two photos taken on the Hurley Farm in Cork ❄️☀🐮
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Man who died in workplace accident described as a fantastic father
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Mucking about - Super pic from day one of the ploughing. John, George and Isobel Fee from Monaghan making a splash at the National Ploughing Championships 2023 in Ratheniska, Co.Laois.
Pic:Mark Condren
#ploughing2023
#farming
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Fred the sheepdog helping Sion Morgan round up a ewe and lamb in Wales 🏴
📹 Sion Morgan
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Great piece by
@Peterhynes15
on how farming can be a highly stressful and isolating way of life, so remember there is no shame in reaching out for help
#AgMentalHealthWeek
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'I was worried farmers wouldn't pick me because I'm a woman' - 24-year-old on starting her own dairy unit
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Darragh McCullough: It's time to park our emotions and debunk the myths about suckler farming
@darraghmccullou
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Six is the lucky number for one Belclare ewe on the Teagasc farm in Athenry, Co Galway, who gave birth to sextuplet lambs for the second year in a row- all alive and doing well. 🐑
#sheep
#springhassprung
#belclare
#thankafarmer
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Out at
@Peterhynes15
and
@Paulahynes4
farm in Atherla, Co Cork. Cows out the past 8 days for 3 hour breaks and staying out for the night tonight 🐮
Farm cover is 1,200Kg DM/ha atm, what are other people’s covers like? 👨🌾
#Grass10
#GrassToMilk
#Februdairy
#CorkBai
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Can't beat having good staff on the farm 🤣 Georgina Hynes busy working on her dairy farm in Aherla, Co Cork 👩🏻🌾🐄
📹
@Peterhynes15
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We love to drink Paula.. Paula is our friend 🤣
@Paulahynes4
taking on the milk pint challenge. Who’s next? 🥛
#MilkPintChallenge
#FebruDairy
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From working nights on the London Underground... to an idyllic farm on the shores of Dingle Bay
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‘It’s logical for Ireland to produce more beef, not less’ – says economist David McWilliams
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City girl in the Country 👧 Alannah Sweeney (6) from Dublin helping out with the lambing on her Grandad’s farm on Achill Island🐑
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Michael Fitzmaurice said he will have discussion documents drawn up within six weeks on all political areas, such as health, agriculture and transport.
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Van der Plas hails ‘victory’ despite lower than expected poll numbers
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Darragh McCullough: IFA candidates' head-in-the-sand populism on eco issues will turn farmers into social pariahs
@darraghmccullou
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‘Do you want a 10,000 herd in a shed in California, or grass-fed Irish family farming?’
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Gillian O’Sullivan wins the Farmer of the Year GRAND PRIX award! Congratulations. Presented by
@Zurichireland
.
#zurichfoty
#foty
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Dara Walton from Callan, Co Kilkenny is the winner in the beef category at the Zurich Farming Independent Farmer of the Year Awards
#farmeroftheyear
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Cancer survivor (16) and friends restore vintage Massey and raise over €40k for charity
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Grace Roche from Pretty Bird entering our floss dance competition 🤣
@GracePrettyBird
#FarmIreland
#Ploughing18
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Lidl will have to pay costs of failed High Court case against IFA
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Methane emissions from dairy cows are ‘probably overestimated’
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Cuts to the dairy herd of 65,000 cows per year for the next three years will be needed to meet agriculture's climate targets Department of Ag officals have estimated in an internal briefing paper seen by the Farming Independent. Read the full story here:
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Cutting national herd would lead to rise in global GHG emissions - top US scientist
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Why
@Peterhynes15
became the first farmer in Ireland to feed a methane-reducing additive
#farming
#dairy
#ClimateAction
#NationalDairyShow
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“We’re just ordinary farmers. We try to keep it simple” says overall Farmer of the Year David Russell at the Zurich Farming Independent Farmer of the Year Awards 🙌🏻🐮🥇
#farmeroftheyear
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'Vegans should stop drinking soya milk in order to save the rainforest'
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The challenges of mental health: Sometimes I’m laughing on the outside but crying on the inside, writes
@Peterhynes15
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A client of mine walked into my office and said he intended milking 20 extra cows in 2018.
He was single, already milking 80 cows and a simple system with a good profit margin and a good work life balance.
I asked him why and he couldn't answer me....
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Why climate activists are barking up the wrong tree by attacking Irish farming writes
@Peterhynes15
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Eamon Ryan: ‘Greens vs farmers narrative is out of date – we’re working together now’
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Farm dogs leading their cattle out of the flood in Florida and to safety.
All of these animals got out of the flood safe 🐮
Here's to some courageous canine heroes 🐶
📸Karin TarQwyn
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A message to the Greens: dairy expansion and biodiversity can thrive alongside each other writes
@Peterhynes15
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Master of the plough - JJ Delaney from Macroom representing Cork East concentrates on the Furrow during the Senior Horse competition at the National Ploughing Championships at Ratheniska Co Laois.
Picture Credit:Frank McGrath
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Know anyone that would love this as their wedding cake? 💒👨🌾👰
📸 Rachel Hickey, Daisy Chain Cakes 🌼
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Farmer loses part of his dairy herd to bloat due to ‘high levels of clover in their diet’
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Gillian O'Sullivan: A few changes in our spring planning have made a huge difference in animal health
@GillwallyO
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Inside Ireland’s biggest suckler enterprise – ‘It’s all about genetics’
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Darragh McCullough: Newsflash farmers - vegetarian, vegan and 'flexitarian' diets are here to stay
@darraghmccullou
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Reducing the national dairy herd by 10pc would cost the rural economy €1.3bn per year, the dairy industry has warned.
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Chinese beef market opens to exports from Ireland -
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Meath's Padraic Harnan: 'It's hard: you can't farm if you're injured, but I won't quit football'
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Irish food on display at reception in Irish embassy in Japan
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Pensioner drives his Massey from Mizen to Malin in memory of his wife
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Meet the farmers about to launch a business selling organic flour from their own farms in Monaghan
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Somebody's happy to be coming in out of the cold ❄ 🐑
📸 Aoife O'Shea, Coolback, Co Wexford
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John Fagan: I took advantage of a small window in between lambing and silage to tie the knot
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'We're an overnight success story after 40 years' - Dairy farmer of the year insists he's doing nothing out of the ordinary
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Sundays were made for spending time with bae 💕
📸 Paula Hynes, Atharla, Co Cork 🐄
@Paulahynes4
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Global fertiliser prices fall as gluts emerge after farmers pull back
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A senior civil servant based in Leinster has been identified by gardaí as a suspect in an attack on a farmer in Co Wicklow, who has closed his land to all walkers on a popular hiking trail as a consequence of the incident.
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'Honestly, I don’t know why it took me so long to convert’
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When your printer runs out of ink 😭🙈
📸 Jimmy Neutron, Kanturk, Cork
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Darragh McCullough: There’s nothing shameful about what Irish farmers do, yet many could be forgiven for feeling like it’s heading that way
@darraghmccullou
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Gillian O'Sullivan: Agri-food industry pays lip service to sustainability while creaming off the fat of the land
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'I was expected to be a teacher, nurse ...but not a farmer' - FarmIreland.ie
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Big congratulations to Gillian O’Sullivan on winning the Rising Star Award! Presented by
@Cormactagging
.
#zurichfoty
#foty
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Whistleblower accused Simon Coveney and Enda Kenny of ‘political interference’ in criminal probes by Department of Agriculture into farmers and pharmacists
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Peter Hynes: I am convinced that the EU will in time eliminate any Irish derogation to bring us in line with the majority of EU countries and effectively make us farm at 170kg/ha.
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WARNING ⚠️ Look away if you’re squeamish 👀
Scrotal abscess in a ram lamb attended to by vet Gerard McGovern 👨🏻🔬
#Vet
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FarmIreland’s favourite story from the Ploughing... 🤣
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Can't beat a good scratch 🤣
📸 RWV Land and Livestock, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
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The Heritage Bill was a 'trivial waste of taxpayers money that won't do farmers any favours' says leading dairy farmer -
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Grass-fed dairy cows produce milk with superior nutritional properties - new research from
@teagasc
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An Taisce refused leave to appeal in cheese factory case
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Fair play to
@ShannonAirport
as it offers to bring grass cutting forward to support farmers through fodder crisis
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Anger mounting at Government’s failure to remove restrictions on selling to the grid — blocking a potential income stream for small farms as Ireland lags behind rest of Europe on renewable power
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There’s an integrity to rural Ireland’s whipping boy Eamon Ryan that’s lacking in most so-called farmers’ friends
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Colm McCarthy: Hands up who wants cheese from the Sahara or bananas from Cork?
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Fianna Fáil wants EU to probe meat industry profits as it backs actions - Farming Independent
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