Letter to the editor

Letter to the editor: Should we allow the ‘market’ to impoverish us?

Opinion

Letter to the editor: Should we allow the ‘market’ to impoverish us?

Having grown up on a beef farm in rural Ireland, I have spent the past two decades working for global...
Letter to the editor: ‘Contracting is not very profitable. Is this the final nail in the coffin?’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘Contracting is not very profitable. Is this the final nail in the coffin?’

I felt it necessary to write to you to highlight the cost that carbon tax is going to impose on...
Letter to the editor: ‘You won’t see a happier greyhound than one that has just finished a race’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘You won’t see a happier greyhound than one that has just finished a race’

I think it is necessary to give some balance following the letter you published slating the greyhound industry on Tuesday...
Letter to the editor: ‘Are we to be educated by an anti-farming media-elite?’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘Are we to be educated by an anti-farming media-elite?’

I’m farming in rural Ireland – with 300 ewes and some sucklers. I’m writing in response to your recent ‘Opinion’...
Letter to the editor: ‘Horrific cruelty counts for nothing when rural TDs come under pressure’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘Horrific cruelty counts for nothing when rural TDs come under pressure’

Last year – 2019 – was the year when we saw just how tenacious a grip the greyhound industry has...
Letter to the editor: ‘Rural Ireland will be back to the days of the landlords’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘Rural Ireland will be back to the days of the landlords’

I ask if Teagasc has been, or continues to be, an agency for ‘misdirection’? After all, the purpose of farming is...
Letter to the editor: Are we ‘shameless’ in how we define ‘grass-fed’?

Opinion

Letter to the editor: Are we ‘shameless’ in how we define ‘grass-fed’?

I was sad reading last week’s letter from Mr. Fitzpatrick. I can just imagine how disappointed he would be if...
Letter to the editor: Will we see more Irish dairy farms going to the vultures?

Dairy

Letter to the editor: Will we see more Irish dairy farms going to the vultures?

Over the past decade, with the removal of milk quotas, the dairy industry has become the new face of Irish...
Letter to the editor: ‘Those who are loudest receive attention’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘Those who are loudest receive attention’

I was prompted to write after reading your article on whether a left-leaning government would favour farmers. Issues that are...
Letter to the editor: ‘How long is the vision for beef farmers in Ireland?’

Opinion

Letter to the editor: ‘How long is the vision for beef farmers in Ireland?’

Within a typical food-chain – from producer to processor to retailer to customer – the various stages, and the people...