With marts around the country facing hardships of increased insurance costs and reduced prices,not to mention more farmers deciding to se...

Keeping surplus lambs -Is it worth the Hassle? With lambing in full swing, for a lot of farmers, the question that faces many is what to do with surp...

In recent weeks and months we farmers have been getting extremely bad press. Irish and English papers ran with headlines like “Scientists say ea...

Loneliness On the 13th of June 2018 the Loneliness Taskforce published a report on the state of loneliness in Ireland. In the report they state that ...

Last week we shared signs 11 signs that you're a dairy farmer. This week we have another ten. If you haven't experienced at lease eight of th...

As humans there are some things that we all experience in our lives. However there are others that you can only understand if you have lived and/or wo...

Thank You and Merry Christmas from all at Agridirect The Wind Down Merry Christmas to you all. Here at Agridirect we are getting the last orders out ...

I’m moving back to the country. After leaving college I realised, like most from farming backgrounds, the farm isn’t going to make enough ...

In the last blog I spoke about the Celts running their animals between two bonfires during Samhain to cleanse them and bring them good luck for the st...

Halloween is fast approaching, bringing with it the menace of ghoulish children threatening your property with “tricks” unless you appease...

In years gone by every farm kept chickens. They provided the household with valuable food in the form of Eggs and meat and an additional source of inc...

In my Fiancée’s Grandmother’s house there is a picture of her grandfather and his horses competing, and winning in the ploughing ba...