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Regulations, clover and looming problems
Matt Dempsey
Matt Dempsey reports on this year’s Nuffield Ireland conference, which focused on shaping the future of Irish agriculture.
20 November 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: options for supplementing cattle rations
If we cannot get good by-products at a competitive price, then we will unwillingly replace them with imported product which does nobody any good.
20 November 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: pressure on horticulture
There are sectors where producer groups would have a logical role in both price and conditions of supply negotiations with supermarket customers.
Nuffield conference: regulations, clover and looming problems
'Shaping the future of Irish agriculture' was the ambitious title of this year's conference.
19 November 2024 News
Changes coming
All of these uncertainties leave a major exporter such as Ireland's food sector dependent on meeting quality criteria.
13 November 2024 Viewpoints
Nitrogen vs clover
Weather conditions are ideal for aphids, the same conditions also seem to favour slugs.
13 November 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: changed routine in a changed early winter
The crops are a glorious verdant green, though the latest sown crop, the gluten free oats is slower to emerge than I expected given the mild conditions.
6 November 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: IFA's farming and food event
Farming’s case was well made with a national spotlight focused on the industry.
6 November 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: focus on cattle
We now have about one third of our cattle in the sheds, with the rest still outside finishing off aftergrass and some paddocks with good covers.
30 October 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: learnings from Castledockrell
Castledockrell – the area demonstrates that farming is capable of being carried out with minimal effect on the overall environment.
30 October 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: Soil – the basic resource
Johnstown Castle - The 1,000 acre estate was given as a gift to the Irish State by the Lacken family in the mid 1940s.
23 October 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: Sowing the last of the autumn crops
While this autumn has been a huge improvement in being able to get crops established, it had been an expensive summer.
23 October 2024 Viewpoints