Despite the challenging conditions, Irish manufacturers presented a host of new products at this year’s National Ploughing Championships, against a backdrop of some market uncertainty

A growing number of farmers in Northern Ireland are moving towards autumn- and winter-calving as a way pf maximising milk from grazed grass, particularly at the end of the cow’s lactation. Richard Halleron speaks to a farmer who is doing just that.

Last year’s British Grassland Society’s grassland farmer of the year was sheep farmer, John Martin. Richard Halleron went to meet him.