Lidl Ireland has announced a five-year potato supply agreement worth more than €90 million with Meath-based Meade Farm, extending a partnership that began in 2000. The agreement will secure potato supplies for the retailer into the next decade while giving the family business greater certainty over production, land requirements, employment and future investment. Founded in […]
Bord Bia has announced a €1,000,000 investment in beef marketing across key UK and EU markets this autumn to support the Irish farming sector. Bord Bia’s autumn promotional activities this year will specifically spotlight Irish quality assured steak in the UK, Belgium and Italy with stewing cuts being the hero product in the Netherlands. Funding […]
CLAAS has been developing and manufacturing balers for 95 years, 65 of which have been spent in Metz-Woippy. In 1996, the company unveiled its first round baler with a variable bale chamber developed in-house: the VARIANT 100 series. The name VARIANT has endured ever since – now in its fifth generation alongside the CEREX series, […]
Kerry dairy farmer, William Dennehy was announced as the Teagasc / FBD Environmentally Sustainable Farmer of the Year 2026 at the awards ceremony in County Laois. The awards, kindly sponsored by FBD, were presented to five category winners: dairy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing biodiversity, improving soil health, improving water quality and farming with innovation […]
As the Championships drew to a close, it was announced from the Grandstand that the 2027 National Ploughing Championships will take place in Boherkill Farm, Rathangan, Co. Kildare. The 95th National Ploughing Championships came to a close today after three fantastic days in Screggan, Tullamore, with 75,000 visitors attending Day Three and 243,000 attending across the three days. The […]
Day Two of the 95th National Ploughing Championships saw another huge crowd descend on Screggan, with visitors enjoying a packed programme of ploughing, livestock, food, fashion and entertainment as attendance reached 91,000. The ploughing fields were once again at the heart of the action, with Senior Conventional and Senior Reversible classes getting underway alongside the Farmerette […]
Kverneland Group Ireland, an official sponsor of this year’s National Ploughing Championships, will launch two new grass machines onto the Irish market as part of a broad display of Kverneland, McConnel and SILOKING machinery. The new Kverneland Tactus twin-rotor rake and Tersus 4000 flail chopper will make their Irish debut at this year’s National Ploughing […]
Minister of State with responsibility for Forestry, Farm Safety and Horticulture, Niall Collins TD, has announced the publication of the Department’s Annual Forest Statistics Report for 2026. Minister Collins said: “The Forest Statistics Ireland 2026 annual report brings together a wide range of information into one place to provide a detailed picture of the forest […]
CLAAS is expanding its range of tedders with seven new VOLTO and VOLTO T models, positioned below the VOLTO 1500 – 1300 TS series introduced in 2024. In addition to even more user-friendly operation, improved ground contour following and enhanced working quality, particular attention was paid during the development process to the low-maintenance, oil-filled rotor […]
Dublin-based, civil and structural engineering consultancy Will Rudd has reached a significant milestone in Ireland after being appointed to deliver its 75th agricultural underpass project since entering the market in 2021. The achievement reflects the rapid growth of the firm’s Irish operations across public housing, education buildings and other sectors and its emergence as a […]
