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Editorial: easy answer to Trump tariffs - make farming great again
Jack Kennedy
Let’s take the initiative and keep control of what is good for rural Ireland.
2 April 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: TB stalemate
Managing this disease is costing farmers north and south endless millions, and is also causing significant stress and mental fatigue.
28 March 2025 News
Farm Tech Talk: dairy-beef calves, sheep schemes and milk quota
On the agenda this week, we chat about the popularity of rearing dairy-beef calves, updates on schemes and 10 years on from when the milk quota brakes came off.
Editorial: ten years on from EU milk quotas
So what of the future? Competitive grassland farming remains the best hand of cards.
26 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: Breeding - AI company rights
AI company rights - this industry-wide initiative is more far reaching and fundamental.
26 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: Kerry discontent
Cleaning and deepening drains is an everyday occurrence in a county like Kerry. It keeps farms productive.
26 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: Teagasc clover study published
The objective of the review was to establish a roadmap of actions that Teagasc now needs to take to further develop options for a future with less artificial nitrogen.
26 March 2025 Viewpoints
Farm Tech Talk: beef boom, lambing and positive water quality
The ongoing positivity in the beef trade, an improvement in water quality results and lambing 2025 all feature on this week's Farm Tech Talk.
21 March 2025 News
Editorial: building on nitrates success
We need to fix soil fertility, because this allows better use of all nutrients on farms.
19 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: post-storm help required
With the ash dieback scheme, windblown timber and replanting, we have a huge amount of work ahead.
19 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: lamb price decline
Young lambs are also benefiting from getting outside to grass and settled, before tougher weather arrives.
19 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: beef price warning
Many beef feedlot finishers are on contract and many of these are paying relatively big money around the rings for forward store cattle, in the knowledge that they will have a guaranteed margin.
19 March 2025 Viewpoints