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Farm Tech Talk: new TB proposals, higher Irish sheep prices and calf housing
Jack Kennedy
Hear the latest from the team on this week's Farm Tech Talk show.
15 January 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: Looking into 2025 – TB change needed
We are spending €170m on the island trying to eradicate TB, on top of lost output and further on farm cost while the numbers are going the wrong way.
15 January 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: Dairygold price row
Linking a contractual milk supply arrangement and subsequently tying in a trading requirement with an annual milk price top-up makes for lazy management.
Jack Kennedy: New government imminent
We’ll set out what’s in the programme for government from a farming perspective and talk to the new political leaders on what they want to prioritise.
15 January 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: wind farm judgment
It’s a very real reminder to everyone that legally binding climate targets are not going away, no matter who is in government.
15 January 2025 Viewpoints
Leasing, growing and sexing in Cork
The Yara-sponsored Irish Grassland Association annual dairy conference provided plenty of reminders about what the best farmers are doing that others can learn from Jack Kennedy reports
15 January 2025 News
Farm Tech Talk: TB proposals on cows, scanning and TAMS slurry storage
This week, we hear of new TB proposals, scanning ewes and update on the new slurry storage grants under TAMS.
10 January 2025 Podcast
Export market change - real and present
For value growth to continue, clearly Irish grain needs to be the basis for Irish drinks.
8 January 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: Stop the clock and reflect
How quickly we forget some of the detail and indeed some of the outcomes from these so-called scandals.
8 January 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: Renewable ‘set price’ disappoints
It seems, on the face of it, that this tariff rate is below expectations and not going to give the injection or boost to farmers that they need to take on the project risks.
8 January 2025 Viewpoints
Farm Tech Talk: new-year beef prices, lamb shortage and Kentucky whiskey
New-year beef prices, a shortage of lamb on the horizon and lessons from Kentucky whiskey for the Irish are all on the agenda this week.
3 January 2025 Podcast
Editorial: need for positive thinking for investing in 2025
The EU powerhouses of Germany and France need financial stimulation and are in a very different fiscal economic situation to Ireland at the moment.
1 January 2025 Viewpoints