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According to Teagasc enrolment figures for further education, courses in Agriculture will be up 42 per cent to date this year on the back of a 47 per cent increase in 2007.

Instead of travelling the length and breadth of the country to view livestock before making a purchasing decision, farmers in Mayo can now view these livestock online first before deciding to travel, thanks to an innovative new website www.pedigreecattle.ie.

Clarenbridge Lifestyle and Garden Centre will host a composting demonstration this Saturday. The event, organised in association with the Galway County Council and Clarenbridge Tidy Towns committee, follows a previous very successful composting event at the centre.

The IFA president Padraig Walsh is very positive that immediate action will be taken at both national and EU level to resolve the severe problems in the sheep sector.

Even though dairy farmers received over a 2 per cent increase in the price that they receive for their milk over the summer, production has not grown over the same period.

If cattle prices are any indication, then it can be said that the so-called recession had not reached Kilkenny Mart last Thursday.

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food is being blamed for the fact that the price that the farmer receives for his milk is lower than it should be.

If you are looking to be environmentally friendly at home, start with New Ross based Eco Build, a company serving the whole of Ireland.

Elaine Farrell has been elected the first woman president in the 66-year history of the Agricultural Science Association (ASA). She takes over from Athenry-based Teagasc man Gerry Scully whose term of office ended at the association's national conference in Galway in mid-September.

Ireland has been shipping over 200,000 gallons of milk, (approximately 35 bulk milk tanker loads) to England everyday for the past couple of months, because British milk production is 15 per cent below quota this year.