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Records fall for heavy lambs

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - 12 August Numbers increased marginally as agents offered 8000 lambs and 600 sheep. Quality was fair to good across...

Holding back the sea: How Dutch ingenuity saved the land

From the deadly night of 1953 to the Delta Works programme, the Netherlands has turned reclaimed polders into some of the most productive farmland...

Prices up from previous week at Dublin

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - 5 August Lamb numbers increased by 2500 head as agents offered 7000 lambs and 700 sheep. Quality overall was...

More saleyard records set at Dublin

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - 15 July Winter supply issues are now affecting numbers as agents offered 5000 lambs and 1500 sheep. While lamb...

New saleyard record as winter issues arise

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - 15 July Winter supply issues are now affecting numbers as agents offered 5000 lambs and 1500 sheep. While lamb...

Numbers ease after rough weather

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - June 8 Numbers eased this week as agents offered 5200 lambs and 1000 sheep, and given the extremely rough...

Weather no deterrent at Livestock Exchange

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - June 24 Wild weather over much of the supplying areas did not deter vendors as agents offered 18,850 lambs...

Sheepish view of Iceland

This week’s Over the Fence comes directly from Iceland where I have been examining the condition of Icelandic livestock, mainly sheep, which have recently lambed...

March shorn merinos set saleyards record

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - June 17 Numbers increased substantially as agents offered 10,000 lambs and 1500 sheep. Quality was generally fair to good...

Plovers and lapwings

WHAT BIRD IS THAT with Paul Taylor Occasionally, names of some birds are changed. Classification can be altered with recent advances in ornithology, resulting in...

Bombardieri Malaysia bound

A Two Wells football rising star is preparing to take the biggest step in his burgeoning journey so far, as he departs Australia to...