News & opinion

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LATEST NEWS
Paul Mooney
€17,857/ac guide price for land at Mullingar
Elsewhere, land in east Cork is guided at €12,080 and land in Galway at €10,000. These are non-residential, mid-sized holdings.
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Siobhán Walsh
Tillage Podcast: pesticides and politics - reporting from Brussels
EDITORIAL
Jack Kennedy
Rewetting plans revisited
Milk pricing review 2022
We have moved to bringing more analysis on the financial reporting of the dairy co-ops.
SPONSORED
Steady cattle and sluggish sheep trade so far in 2023
Mark Zieg, Bord Bia beef, meat and livestock manager, and Seamus McMenamin, sheepmeat and livestock manager, look at trade.
VIEWPOINTS
Lessons from Newford farm open day
Jack Kennedy
Dempsey at Large: no policy input
Matt Dempsey
Home Farm: TB reactor - herd test failure
Matt Dempsey
Irish retail grocery trends this year
Colm McCarthy
FARMER WRITES
Karen McCabe
Farmer Writes: picking out cull cows and show heifers
Karen McCabe writes of the difficulties in selecting cows for the cull list and the right heiferfor the commercial show ring.
Contributor
A simple trial and a ‘complete handling’
Robert McConaghy milks cows and finishes beef cattle on his farm outside Ballymoney, Co Antrim.
James Strain
Farmer Writes: silage 2023 meant pulling an all-nighter
Tommy Moyles
Farmer Writes: contracting out the breeding decisions
SPONSORED
Steady cattle and sluggish sheep trade so far in 2023
Mark Zieg, Bord Bia beef, meat and livestock manager, and Seamus McMenamin, sheepmeat and livestock manager, look at trade.
DEALER
Ahern retires from Tirlán board role
The Waterford farmer retires after serving on both the Glanbia and Tirlán boards
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The Dealer
Short shrift for short-haul French flights
The Dealer
Government review sticks the boot into Bord Bia's carbon footprint
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VIDEO HUB
FARM SAFETY
Ellen Durkin
Keeping social sustainability in mind during summertime
Summer is a busy time for farms across the country, but farmers need to keep mindful of farm safety.
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SPONSORED
Steady cattle and sluggish sheep trade so far in 2023
Mark Zieg, Bord Bia beef, meat and livestock manager, and Seamus McMenamin, sheepmeat and livestock manager, look at trade.
FORESTRY
Declan O’Brien
McConalogue rules out ash dieback compensation
Spike in forestry environmental information access appeals
The finger has been pointed at Coillte and the Department of Agriculture for a sizeable rise in appeals on access to information on the environment requests.
Donal Magner
Missed opportunities for homegrown timber
PIG AND POULTRY
Noel Bardon
Poultry welfare proposals could ‘quadruple’ chicken costs – IFA
Costs would surge if poultry stocking rates are dropped and low limits set for broiler growth rates, Sweetnam said.
Barry Murphy
Two UK poultry workers test positive for bird flu
The poultry farm workers have since tested negative and had no bird flu symptoms.
Noel Bardon
Irish poultry units H5N1-free since November
Barry Murphy
New challenger for Ireland’s largest egg
Noel Bardon
Strict new EU rules proposed for poultry farms