The Farming Week

The Farming Week: Farm scheme payments, €6,500/ac fixed payment for road CPOs and farmer to donate bullock sale proceeds to hospital

The Farming Week: Farm scheme payments, €6,500/ac fixed payment for road CPOs and farmer to donate bullock sale proceeds to hospital

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

Range of farm scheme payments to end 2023;

Fallen animal collection service resumes after talks;

€6,500/ac fixed payment for road CPOs;

Lebanon market secured for 1,000 Irish dairy heifers;

Non-European bark beetle found for first time in Ireland;

Farmer to donate proceeds of Angus bullock sale to Dublin hospital.

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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

The Farming Week: TB action plan, TAMS costs and Young Farmer of the Year

The Farming Week: TB action plan, TAMS costs and Young Farmer of the Year

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:New TB action plan unveiledFunding for new TB measures yet to be decidedDairy sector faces 200,000-cow cut if derogation lostTAMS reference costs revisedFBD Young Farmer of the YearCountdown to PloughingDon’t forget to rate, review and follow The Farming Week, Agriland’s weekly review of Irish agriculture, and visit Agriland.

11 Sep 2025