The Balmoral Show is in full swing with exhibitors and visitors from Northern Ireland and beyond enjoying fine weather on the first day of the show. My colleague Anthony Jordan takes us to some of the most popular tents to meet show-goers and exhibitors.
Anthony Jordan speaks to new Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality Frances Fitzgerald about rural crime and the deployment of more Garda personnel.
Delivering the annual Gibson lecture at Queens University Belfast, European Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan has painted a bleak picture of what would happen to Ireland if the UK leaves the EU.
Irish Farmers Journal Northern Ireland editor David Wright met Jay Waldvogel from the leading US co-op Dairy Farmers of America at the dairy volatility conference held in Lisburn last week.
Increasing anti-microbial resistancemeans that farmers will not be able to use antibiotics as freely in the future. My colleague Odile Evans talked to dairy farmer and chairman of Animal Health Ireland, Mike Magan about the trial he ran on his own farm in Co Longford, using less antibiotics to dry off cows.
News correspondent Odile Evans met OPW Chair Clare McGrath at last week's meeting of the Shannon Flood Risk State Agency Co-ordination Working Group and asked her about the concerns of recently flooded farmers.