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Kathleen Duffy Co. Cavan woman Kathleen Duffy is logging out this week, as she retires after 24 years working with Irish Farm Computers on Herdmaster, AgriNet Grass and more recently HerdAPP, on software support. Mother of outgoing Macra na Feirme president Thomas Duffy, she has assisted in the running of the renowned Virginia Show for the past 25 years, and was involved in the setting up and running of the €1 million show centre which opened in 2014. She lives outside Virginia, and farms with her husband Ned, as well as Thomas. Kathleen, who has a B.Sc. Honours degree in rural development...

March 3, 2021 1:10 pm Payments under the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP), which commenced in December, continue, with compliance verification ongoing for almost 2,000 participants, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has confirmed. In a brief statement on the matter to AgriLand, a spokesperson for the department said: “Payments under the 2020 Programme year for both BDGP I and BDGP II commenced in December 2020 and as of this week a total of 22,086 active participants have received payments of €39.85 million. The issue with partnership cases has been resolved with ...

Aidan Murrey gives a break down of the six key performance indicators (KPI's) from the national suckler herd.

Majority of BDGP payments issue to farmers in partnerships 2021-02-08

Using a “team of bulls” on his suckler herd has helped North Tipperary farmer Thomas Hogan to achieve a 20pc increase in the Replacement Index of his entire herd.