Developed through a partnership between Bord Bia, Teagasc, and the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF), AgNav is a free online tool designed specifically for Irish farmers.

Confidence is evaporating, and this kind of price cutting could well be the final nail in the coffin for many,” ICSA sheep chair Willie Shaw has said.

In May, Stephen Robb, the Irish Farmers Journal Renewables Editor, spent a day with contractor Stephen Mohan in Co Meath during the first-cut silage to get a sense of what this hectic time of year ...