Dick Schirado has created motion-activated watering systems for cattle and other gadgets to make farm life easier. But he says the real challenge is convincing others to bring his work to market. Dick ...

Tired of waiting three or four minutes for his handheld grain probe to settle on a temperature value, Fife farmer John Hutcheson went in search of some permanent alternatives and has been crowned ...

In today's food products, we like to tag certain words to packaging - food labels. Currently, there are dozens if not hundreds of different food labels. To name a few, these include: The general ...

Young innovators in contention for honours at the national finals of the Student Enterprise Awards Jack O'Sullivan, who comes from a suckler-beef farming background, has developed a €160 hoist to help ...

Farm life holds a unique set of challenges and dangers, one of those inside grain bins. "If the grain starts to spoil, it doesn't flow out of the grain bins the way it's supposed to. So you start to ...

Welcome to This Week in Farming, your one-stop shop for the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. It might be soggy, but the air is milder and the mornings are lighter. I even saw some ...