Sheep

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  A key area of improvement for the future will be to reduce the lambing spread

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  ‘Over the summer, I could shear between 10,000-15,000 sheep’

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  Lamb prices finally stabilise as kill numbers continue to slide

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  Why is beef flying while lamb prices are floundering?

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  Why this 25-year-old Donegal farmer with 500 sheep and 60 sucklers is confident about the future of Irish farming

  

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  More cuts to factory quotes but mart prices hold steady

  

• Tom Staunton: Lambs by our new stock ram have a good growth rate – the investment was worth it

  

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  Price pulls ‘taking the heart out of men to stay at sheep’

  

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  ‘Life has to go on. I honestly don’t know what else I would have done besides farming’ – how this Wicklow woman took charge of the 550-sheep farm when her husband died

  

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  Latest round of lamb price cuts slammed as ‘highly irresponsible’

  

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  Are farmers really better off than they were 40 years ago?

  

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  How farming has been a ‘lifeline’ for this Roscommon native after a double tragedy

  

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  Be alert – glorious weather brings problems as well as benefits

  

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  ‘Crippling blow’ for sheep farmers as hogget and cull quotes slashed

  

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  Tips for grass management as lambs head towards weaning

  

• Red flag for sheep sector as hogget price falls below beef

  

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  Ticks and blowfly can cause major problems in the good weather – here’s what we are doing to combat them

  

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  Sheep farmers warn of collapse as factories slash prices and stay silent

  

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  Eamon O’Connell: We have all been complicit in allowing parasites to develop resistance to wormers

  

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  Declining Spanish numbers offer hope of Irish lamb price rises

  

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  How switching to full-time farming has helped this Kerry family deal with their grief

  

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  Use dog licence cash to compensate sheep farmers for dog attacks – Kerry councillor

  

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  There’s a lot of scald in younger lambs this year – here’s what we are doing about it

  

• Factory cuts questioned as numbers continue to drop off

  

• How a focus on ewe BCS lifted this Sligo farmer’s scanning rate to 1.96

  

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  Tips for parasite control and vaccination as focus turns to summer

  

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  Lamb down 60c/kg in post-Easter show of strength from processors

  

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  Angus Woods: I’ve discovered a surprise new way to ease the toll lambing season takes on your body

  

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  Scrapping sheep to ‘protect nature’ now risking wildfires, UK warned

  

• Farmers still holding out hope of €10/kg for spring lamb

  

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  Belated Easter effect drives up lamb and hogget by 20c/kg

  

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  Armed with a knife at a gunfight: How red tape is holding back farming

  

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  Little sign of Easter bonus as malaise grips the sheep trade

  

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  How social media and a love of lambing brought this globe-trotting Englishwoman to a hill farm in Sligo

  

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