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Do farmers need identity cards? ....I don’t think so
I was intrigued by an article published in the Irish Independent a few days ago, claiming that the Department of...
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I was intrigued by an article published in the Irish Independent a few days ago, claiming that the Department of...
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Recently, local papers in the west of Ireland have been full of mart adverts, which highlight upcoming suckler dispersal sales....
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By John McHugh, dairy farmer, Portlaoise, Co. Laois George RR Martin’s fantasy series ‘Game of Thrones’ has captured the imaginations...
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Ireland’s Liquid Milk scheme should be scrapped with immediate effect. It’s an aberration and a throwback to the days when...
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Animal Health Ireland and the other stakeholder groups within the livestock sector are to be applauded for their commitment to...
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Irish beef farmers should be getting very concerned about the pitifully slow rate of progress being made at the Brexit...
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What’s Boortmalt’s game? The company’s management team has spent most of this year telling the world about the need to...
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Brexit should not be allowed to become a naval gazing exercise on the part of Irish agriculture. Merely focusing on...
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Surely dairy farmers have enough gumption to realise that the fixed-price milk contracts now on offer from Glanbia represent a...
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I called in at Glencolmcille Show last Sunday and was amazed at the tremendous turnout of sheep for the event....
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Paul Caskie, an economist with the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland, told delegates attending a...
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The Irish weather has conspired, yet again, to hole the prospects for tillage farmers below the water line. Large swathes...
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It’s becoming increasingly clear that the Irish agricultural sector is facing into one of the most uncertain periods in its...
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Rather than green-lighting the introduction of the mandatory 38c Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) tag levy, the Minister for Agriculture,...
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Which genius within the civil service came up with the idea of taking people off the dole in order to...
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By Dermot McNally “Be sure to take all your organic information with a pinch of salt.” Farmers are, among other...
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The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has always seen itself as the political organisation with the true interests of agriculture in Northern...
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The case for an increase in farm-gate milk prices is incontestable. We have just had the sixth successive hike in...