Machinery
FBD is urging farmers and contractors to take just 10 minutes each day to check their tractors and machinery.
Rural Life
A Dublin student at Kildalton Agricultural College in Co. Kilkenny has won the Teagasc/FBD Student of the Year 2025 award.
Agri-Business
FBD has told shareholders that its business has "not been significantly impacted by the weather conditions experienced earlier in the year".
FBD Holdings has recorded a drop in profits for 2025, with profits before tax for the year of around €54 million.
Environment
The deadline for applying to the Teagasc/FBD Environmental Sustainability Awards has been extended.
The Teagasc/FBD Environmental Sustainability Awards is returning this year with a total prize fund of €30,000.
FBD Insurance Group has said it will support the delivery of an initiative to introduce primary school children to "garden-based learning".
Series
The AHI annual CellCheck awards recently took place, a night which acknowledges and recognises the excellence of Irish farmers.
Aileen Sheehan a dairy farmer from Co. Cork has been named as the FBD Young Farmer of the Year winner for 2025.
The Tullamore Show is ready for this weekends large crowds with the green Co. Offaly fields now transformed into a sea of tents and tracks.
The Tullamore Show and FBD National Livestock Show takes place on Sunday, August 10 at Butterfield...
Farm Safety Live will mark its tenth year at the Tullamore Show this Sunday (August 10) with practical, farm-based safety demonstrations.
Beef
Tullamore Show has extended the closing date for accepting entries due to high demand on the show's...
Farm Safety
An interactive Farming Health and Safety Trail to promote practical safety awareness on farms will be featured at Moorepark 2025
Teagasc has launched the "This is Dairying" photo competition in the lead-up to the Moorepark Dairy Open Day, which takes place in early July.
The new 2024 Teagasc Student of the Year, Kate Curran, has said that farming is a "great way of life" after receiving the award today.
Kate Curran from, Kilmagemogue, Portlaw, Co. Waterford has been named the winner of the Teagasc / FBD Student of the Year 2024 award.
FBD has estimated that Storm Éowyn and the heavy snow during the cold snap in January will cost the company around €30 million.
A total prize fund worth €30,000 will be up for grabs at the 2025 Teagasc and FBD Environmental Sustainability Awards.
Make the Moove, the mental health and wellbeing charity for farmers and rural communities, is extending its support services over Christmas.
FBD Holdings has announced that Jim Bergin has been appointed as independent non-executive director and chairperson of its board.
Entries to the biennial Agri Guild Awards, hosted by the Guild of Agricultural Journalists, are now...
The semi-finalists bidding to become the 2024 FBD Young Farmer of the Year have been put through their paces by the competition judges.
