Flooding

‘Long-term prospects for farming are good, but that’s no consolation for those struggling now’

‘Long-term prospects for farming are good, but that’s no consolation for those struggling now’

Last year was an extremely difficult year for the farming sector and while the long-term prospects for farming are good...

January 15, 2016
Farmers to receive funding to help alleviate flooding problems

Farmers to receive funding to help alleviate flooding problems

Farmers are to receive funding from the Government to help alleviate the difficulties they are facing from flooding. Yesterday, Tuesday,...

January 6, 2016
Farmers in the east are offering to help their flooded western counterparts

Farmers in the east are offering to help their flooded western counterparts

Over the last few days, a number of farmers in the east of the country have contacted Agriland about donating haylage...

December 15, 2015
Pics: Flooding has turned one Mayo farm into the ‘local lake’

Pics: Flooding has turned one Mayo farm into the ‘local lake’

A Mayo farm family’s home and farmland has now become ‘the local lake‘, after flooding has devastated the area. Stephen...

December 14, 2015
New research could lead to flood-tolerant cereals

New research could lead to flood-tolerant cereals

Scientists at the University of Nottingham claim to have developed a way of breeding cereals to be more tolerant of...

February 17, 2015