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  • Eradicating BVD across island of Ireland ‘priority’ for stakeholders
  • Farmers’ views sought on animal health challenges – DAFM
  • BVD campaign leading to ‘significant reductions’ in antibiotic use

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

Eradicating BVD across island of Ireland ‘priority’ for stakeholders

The eradication of BVD remains the number one priority for Animal Health Ireland (AHI). And the clock is ticking. The organisation’s chief executive, Patrick Donohoe, commented: “B...

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agriland.ie /4 weeks ago

Farmers’ views sought on animal health challenges – DAFM

Farmers’ opinions are to be sought on animal health and veterinary care services as part of research commissioned by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM). The...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

BVD campaign leading to ‘significant reductions’ in antibiotic use

The ongoing BVD eradication campaign is already delivering animal health benefits across Ireland’s dairy and beef sectors. That’s according to Hugh Farrell, the general secretary o...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

Bord Bia, Teagasc and AHI among top CAP beneficiaries in 2025

Bord Bia, Teagasc and Animal Health Ireland (AHI) have been listed among the top beneficiaries of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments in 2025. The Department of Agriculture,...

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agriland.ie /2 days ago

‘Urgent’ DAFM meeting sought on welfare, traceability protocols

The Irish Farming Association (IFA) has called for an urgent meeting with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) to discuss welfare and traceability protocols. I...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

Minister launches €8.6m biosecurity advisory service for 2026

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon has announced the launch of the Biosecurity Targeted Advisory Service for Animal Health (TASAH) Scheme for 2026. This s...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

Farmers urged to avail of ‘free’ veterinary advice

The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) is urging farmers to avail of free veterinary advice available under the 2026 Biosecurity Targeted Advisory Service for Anima...

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agriland.ie /1 week ago

Ballyhoura Development launches farmer health network

Ballyhoura Development has launched a new farmer health and wellbeing network. It has been launched as part of the Farm Forward – Connecting Generations and Farming for the Future...

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agriland.ie /1 week ago

Support sought for proposal to digitise cattle passports

The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) Dairy Committee is calling for bovine passports, commonly known as blue cards, to be digitised. The committee believes that the use of electron...

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agriland.ie /1 week ago

DAFM: 160 herds restricted for tagging and registration breaches

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) completed 2,277 IDR (identification and registration) inspections in the first six months of 2026. IDR inspections assess...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

Vets being sought to work on Teagasc farms

Teagasc is looking to hire vets to work at nine of its farm locations around the country. The agency said it is establishing a panel of qualified veterinary service providers to su...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

UN’s agriculture body calls for ‘global action’ on animal disease

The top body in the United Nations for food and agriculture has called for “global action” to address the spread of animal diseases across regions. The Food and Agriculture Organis...

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agriland.ie /4 days ago

DAFM update on breeding livestock trade with mainland Europe

Breeding cattle and sheep from mainland Europe can be traded into Ireland, as long as they are accompanied by a valid veterinary health certificate that meets relevant animal healt...

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agriland.ie /1 week ago

Livestock producers advised to vaccinate weanlings ahead of autumn sales – ICOS

The Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS) is calling on livestock producers to get ahead of disease pressure by implementing pre-weaning vaccination programmes for this ye...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

More than 614,000 AI serves recorded in May

A total of 614,527 handheld artificial insemination (AI) serves were recorded during the month of May, according to data from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF). And with...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

What breeding trends are AI companies seeing?

Agriland spoke with a number of artificial insemination (AI) companies about the criteria being selected for sires this breeding season and what the trends were. We are officially...

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agriland.ie /1 week ago

9,500 less AI serves recorded so far in 2026

Artificial insemination (AI) handheld serves recorded in 2026 are running 9,506 behind last year’s figures, according to data from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF). ICBF...

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beefmagazine.com /3 weeks ago

IICA builds One Health solutions through trade standards and policy

We sit down with Lloyd Day, Deputy Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), to unpack how regional cooperation actually works when th...

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agriland.ie /3 weeks ago

NI publishes criteria for ‘mandatory’ IFN-g blood tests for TB

The Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has published the criteria for the mandatory use of interferon-gamma (IFN-g) blood tests for bovine TB in Nort...

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agriland.ie /2 weeks ago

Keeping on top of biosecurity to prevent Johne’s disease

Johne’s disease is a bacterial disease that can devastate herds, as there is no cure currently available for the disease. Johne’s is caused by paratuberculosis, a subspecies of Myc...

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agriland.ie /3 weeks ago

‘Higher welfare hens mean everybody wins’

The Teagasc National Layer’s Conference in Monaghan last month focused on a range of practical topics around poultry flock health. One of the speakers, David Hodson from Rosehill A...

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agriland.ie /5 days ago

DAFM: Animal welfare enforcement incident confirmed

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has confirmed that an enforcement operation was carried out in relation to animal welfare. According to DAFM it carried ou...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

DAFM confirms bluetongue case in Tipperary herd

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has confirmed that bluetongue virus (BTV) has been detected in a herd in Co. Tipperary. This means that bluetongue cases h...

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agriland.ie /3 weeks ago

ABP to further develop NI integrated dairy calf-to-beef system

ABP is confirming the company’s continuing commitment to an integrated dairy calf-to-beef system in Northern Ireland. Significantly, the project is helping to deliver a sustainable...

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