The Farming Week

The Farming Week: ‘The dairy cow can’t pay for everything’, genotyping programme changes and €74.3 million spent on TB programme

The Farming Week: ‘The dairy cow can’t pay for everything’, genotyping programme changes and €74.3 million spent on TB programme

Charles O’Donnell, Louise Hickey and Aisling O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:

Genotyping programme changes after passport delays;

Reactors, restrictions and costs all rise for TB programme;

665 herds identified for illegal burning;

‘The dairy cow can’t pay for everything’;

TD hits out at septic tank grant rollout.

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The Farming Week: Dawn Meats deal, Eco-scheme and milk price cuts

The Farming Week: Dawn Meats deal, Eco-scheme and milk price cuts

Charles O’Donnell, Aisling O’Brien, Francess McDonnell and Breifne O’Brien bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:Eco-Scheme payments to hit farmer’s bank accounts;Milk prices tumble;Dawn Meats New Zealand venture gets green light;Live trade concerns from lumpy skin disease;IHFA considers IVF breeding facility;EU launches generational renewal plan.

23 Oct 2025

The Farming Week: €510m BISS payments, TB spend hits €79m and Rockwell farm

The Farming Week: €510m BISS payments, TB spend hits €79m and Rockwell farm

Charles O’Donnell, Aisling O’Brien and Francess McDonnell bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:€510m in BISS advance paymentsRetailers drop own-label milk prices2025 cattle supply 120,000 head below last yearTB programme spend hit €79.

16 Oct 2025

The Farming Week: Budget 2026, bird flu in NI and Mercosur safeguards

The Farming Week: Budget 2026, bird flu in NI and Mercosur safeguards

Charles O’Donnell and Stella Meehan bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:Budget 2026;Biogas plant on Galway dairy farm;Spiritans to sell Rockwell Farm;Bird Flu in Tyrone;EU regulation on Mercosur safeguards officially proposed.

9 Oct 2025

The Farming Week: Weanling exporters, Storm Amy and tillage sector crisis

The Farming Week: Weanling exporters, Storm Amy and tillage sector crisis

Charles O’Donnell and Kathleen O’Sullivan bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:Possible boycott of weanling sales;Storm Amy to hit country;EU trade chief visits Ireland;Aurivo and Dale Farm ‘”future trading relationship”;Urgent calls for tillage sector support in Budget 2026;Tirlán pays down €250 million bond.

3 Oct 2025

The Farming Week: EBI changes, Dairygold concerns and farm trespassing

The Farming Week: EBI changes, Dairygold concerns and farm trespassing

Charles O’Donnell, Aisling O’Brien and Hugh Harney bring you the biggest stories of the week in Irish agriculture from Agriland, which this week includes:EBI changes revealed;Dairygold to meet suppliers over milk price cut;EU Commissioner to visit Ireland to view water quality efforts;Bill aims to address trespassing on farms;Bird flu confirmed at Cork wildfowl sanctuary;All-Ireland Hedge Laying Championships return.

25 Sep 2025

The Farming Week: All the news from Ploughing 2025

The Farming Week: All the news from Ploughing 2025

In this special live edition of The Farming Week, from the Agriland stand in Screggan, Co Offaly, we look back on three action-packed days at the National Ploughing Championships 2025.

19 Sep 2025