Agriland Team

Irish hill farmer goes viral in cutting ‘clip’ with hand shears

Rural Life

Irish hill farmer goes viral in cutting ‘clip’ with hand shears

An online video of well-known hill farmer Donie Anderson skillfully cutting his hair using only a pair of traditional sheep...
Aileen Barron: Is a website still important in light of other digital marketing tools?

Agri-Business

Aileen Barron: Is a website still important in light of other digital marketing tools?

By Aileen Barron, Green Acre Marketing Considering 84% of farmers use smartphones and assuming that these farmers are using digital...
Arable April: Tillage farmers tell their story…

Arable

Arable April: Tillage farmers tell their story…

Readers are sending in their pictures for Arable April in their droves; the competition is heating up. Since the beginning...
Video: How to carry out good hygiene practices in the lambing shed

Sheep

Video: How to carry out good hygiene practices in the lambing shed

At this time of the year, farmers up and down the country will either be in the middle or coming...
GDT index sees slight increase in latest auction

Dairy

GDT index sees slight increase in latest auction

The latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction has concluded with a slight lift for the GDT index overall, marking the...
Volac warns against ‘unnecessary stockpiling’

Agri-Business

Volac warns against ‘unnecessary stockpiling’

Volac has warned that “unnecessary stockpiling” of its products by customers during the Covid-19 outbreak could put pressure on its...
French dairy sector sets up €10 million fund for farmers reducing milk supply

Dairy

French dairy sector sets up €10 million fund for farmers reducing milk supply

The French dairy sector has urged its farmer suppliers to reduce milk production over the coming weeks to ease the...
Letter to the editor: ‘Our over-55 farmers would have never retired in the first place’

N.Ireland

Letter to the editor: ‘Our over-55 farmers would have never retired in the first place’

Farmers supply what fills the supermarkets’ shelves. Life on Northern Ireland’s farms is not getting any easier, as Covid-19 tightens...
Letter to the editor: ‘Our over-55 farmers would have never retired in the first place’

N.Ireland

Letter to the editor: ‘Our over-55 farmers would have never retired in the first place’

Farmers supply what fills the supermarkets’ shelves. Life on Northern Ireland’s farms is not getting any easier, as Covid-19 tightens...
Home educating on the farm: Family share lessons learned

N.Ireland

Home educating on the farm: Family share lessons learned

With many parents struggling to home school their children during the Covid-19 pandemic, the advice from a home educating farm...
Home educating on the farm: Family share lessons learned

N.Ireland

Home educating on the farm: Family share lessons learned

With many parents struggling to home school their children during the Covid-19 pandemic, the advice from a home educating farm...
Machinery and contractor groups: Interconnected sectors ‘critical’ to food production

Agri-Business

Machinery and contractor groups: Interconnected sectors ‘critical’ to food production

European groups representing agricultural machinery manufacturers, distributors, dealers and agri contractors have committed their support to farmers and cooperatives across...
American farmers dump milk amid Covid-19 crunch

Dairy

American farmers dump milk amid Covid-19 crunch

A number of farmers in the US and Canada have been forced to open their bulk tanks and dump milk...
Aileen Barron: SEO and setting your agri-business up for online success

Agri-Business

Aileen Barron: SEO and setting your agri-business up for online success

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is a practice that will help your website rank higher on search engines; ultimately making it...
The ins and outs of artificially rearing surplus lambs

N.Ireland

The ins and outs of artificially rearing surplus lambs

Before the lambing season kicked off, farmers should have set up a designated area for pet/surplus lambs to be reared...
Opinion: ‘We face a fast-paced, unfamiliar and invisible enemy – but we face it together’

N.Ireland

Opinion: ‘We face a fast-paced, unfamiliar and invisible enemy – but we face it together’

By Edwin Poots – Minister for Agriculture for Northern Ireland As a nation, we are facing the biggest health crisis...
Opinion: ‘We face a fast-paced, unfamiliar and invisible enemy – but we face it together’

N.Ireland

Opinion: ‘We face a fast-paced, unfamiliar and invisible enemy – but we face it together’

By Edwin Poots – Minister for Agriculture for Northern Ireland As a nation, we are facing the biggest health crisis...
Opinion: ‘We face a fast-paced, unfamiliar and invisible enemy – but we face it together’

N.Ireland

Opinion: ‘We face a fast-paced, unfamiliar and invisible enemy – but we face it together’

By Edwin Poots – Minister for Agriculture for Northern Ireland As a nation, we are facing the biggest health crisis...
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