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Editorial: Animal Health Ireland – time for a reset?
Jack Kennedy
If resources are limited for AHI, I often ask myself why is it spending scarce resources on programmes that I’m going to suggest could be classified as more ‘routine’ at this stage.
Editorial: Animal Health Ireland – time for a reset?
Colm McCarthy: Ireland has a mixed legacy on climate
23 December 2024 Viewpoints
Colm McCarthy: Ireland has a mixed legacy on climate
In Ireland, the willingness to subsidise has unleashed an onslaught of lobbying for more, including demands that State subvention be made available for technologies as yet unproven.
View from China: Changes in China's pig industry
23 December 2024 Viewpoints
View from China: Changes in China's pig industry
Speaker after speaker grappled with the prospect that China would in reality need only half the number of sows currently in the herd.
Editorial: Seasons Greetings
The year finished very well with exceptionally good ground conditions helping winter planting and autumn grazing.
23 December 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: Suckler positivity
Mercosur is obviously the elephant in the room and particularly what economic and social impact it will have on rural areas.
23 December 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: choosing solar or food?
We know there are people starving in the world that would love the riches under our feet and yet we are knowingly long-term decommissioning land.
23 December 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: Kerry shareholders vote yes
The move means big change in the relationship between the existing Kerry management and milk suppliers.
18 December 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: Bovaer or not?
The company producing this product has a duty to inform consumers, and policymakers need to inform citizens.
18 December 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: Mercosur back track?
Be sure that beef farmers are watching political soundings with keen interest.
18 December 2024 Viewpoints
Editorial: ICBF analysis - CBV does work
Not publishing evaluations for breeders is a big step that could have long lasting impact.
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
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