Farmland

On this week’s FarmLand, we look at tractor safety on our roads during silage season and what everyone should keep in mind during this busy time,and we talk to the president of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers’ Association (ICMSA), Pat McCormack, about the recent dry spell and milk prices

Macra na Feirme president Thomas Duffy on the future of farming, and Martina Harrington of Teagasc tells us what measures beef farmers can implement to cope with the current spell of dry weather and reduced grass growth rates on-farm.

On this week’s FarmLand, we look at how Tuam Mart is facilitating the movement of cattle and sheep since the outbreak of Covid-19, and we meet two brothers who have built two grant-spec sheep sheds two fields apart from each other in Co. Mayo.

On this week’s FarmLand, we look at how Covid-19 is impacting on students in Gurteen agricultural college and we go behind the scenes to see how the dairy operation in Gurteen College has grown since milk quotas were abolished in 2015.

On this week’s FarmLand, we get the contractors view during silage season, and we look at the impact COVID-19 is having on getting Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) applications processed and approved.