Bluetongue control zone restrictions contributed to a smaller entry at the December Dungannon Dairy Sale, hosted by Taaffe ...

Thirty-five years ago, a lad from Waringsford near Dromara, in the rolling hills of Co Down, decided to have a real holiday ...

An investigation was launched into the illegal movement of cattle across the Irish border in 2004, declassified files have shown. The files show that Irish officials believed that cattle stolen from a ...

Discover the unique story of a Christmas donation: a purebred Holstein bull calf gifted to a Ripon church in 1940.

2005: The Chicago Bears’ 24-17 victory over the Green Bay Packers clinched the team’s first division title since 2001, ...

The family of well-known Crossgar man Sam Smyth have paid a touching tribute following his passing on Saturday 20 December.

Joe Hayden, a fourth-generation dairy farmer supplying milk for Baileys Irish Cream, uses the HerdPlus app to find perfect mates for his 230 cows. The “Tinder for cows” technology, developed by the ...

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Gráinne Hurley and John Maher run an extensive farming system with no tractor, no farm machinery, no sheds, no dehorning, a three-month winter and cattle that “more or less do everything themselves”.

DISAPPOINTMENT has been expressed after a suspected case of bluetongue was flagged in a second herd in Co Down. Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) said ...