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Home Farm: straw runs out
Matt Dempsey
The first job is to get the slurry fully under control so that if we do get a prolonged spell of wet weather, there won’t be a problem with storage capacity under the slats.
22 January 2025 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: unrestrained social media
In Ireland, there are tight regulations on what can be said in public and particularly what can be printed or broadcast. Standards of truth and decency apply.
15 January 2025 Viewpoints
Home Farm: crops fair well in cold spell
I have never seen ground conditions as good in mid-January and the longer heavy rain stays away, the better for the next few weeks.
Dempsey at Large: Oxford Farming Conference report
His address was alarmingly short on specifics, and dealt almost entirely in generalisations.
15 January 2025 Viewpoints
Home Farm: slurry additives
Whether grazing so late in the year was the right decision, I am not sure.
8 January 2025 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: sauce for the goose
Given the dramatically different cost and regulatory obligations between the EU and Brazil, another way of facilitating two-way trade should have been developed.
8 January 2025 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: Variable incomes
The original CAP, with its guaranteed intervention prices and export refunds, was designed to prevent severe fluctuations.
1 January 2025 Viewpoints
Home Farm: Analysing our dairy beef results
The difference in final price between the best and the worst was a really signifiant €340.
1 January 2025 Viewpoints
Home Farm: inducements and penalties
The Biss payment has been reduced very significantly already under the Cap reform so the last thing we need is a unnecessary further deduction.
18 December 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at large: wildly conflicting signals from Brussels
Commissioner Henson he clearly wants better bargaining power for farmers while urging diversification of income sources to spread the risks.
18 December 2024 Viewpoints
Wind damage and badger warning from Department
Our main vulnerability is the water supply.
11 December 2024 Viewpoints
Controversy over the electoral register shows a deep inertia
The existing infrastructure underlying the public services card should be extended to cover the electoral process and the necessary legislation and privacy safeguards put in place.
11 December 2024 Viewpoints