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Editorial: invest now in farming rather than future fines
Jack Kennedy
We do need to protect carbon in soils and grow the volume of carbon that we protect.
Editorial: invest now in farming rather than future fines
Editorial: hill sheep breeding plans
5 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: hill sheep breeding plans
We are hearing increased concerns from hill sheep farmers about discussions on rewetting plans taking place behind closed doors.
Editorial: malting industry debate
5 March 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: malting industry debate
The malting premium over feed is one of the bright lights for tillage farmers in terms of possibilities to improve margins. It always has been.
Editorial: fast-track planning must get green light
We need something very quickly on the nutrient storage side of the house for farmers.
26 February 2025 Viewpoints
Climate action plan: rewetting bombshell
Rewetting: if we don’t map out the impacts now, then when do we do it?
26 February 2025 Viewpoints
Beef welfare scheme: new scheme details
The animal health focus this week discusses the basics of calf rearing and inexpensive early animal health management issues that all farmers should refresh themselves on.
26 February 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: misguided thinking around nitrogen
As importers, energy prices and currency exchanges are largely outside farmer control.
19 February 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: the next CAP vision
There is talk of incentives rather than conditions, however, all that for me is ‘stay on the same road’ type language, just maybe trying to say it in a different way.
19 February 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: storm damage - forestry sector support
What many farmers don’t realise is that removing this timber at a time when the market is effectively flooded with windblown timber, has margin consequences.
19 February 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: Sucklers - Tullamore farm heifers
Tullamore farm manager, Shaun Diver is almost halfway through calving and he has 28 sucklers calved and he has 24 ‘high index, high quality, replacement heifer calves on the ground.
19 February 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: rules tighten on peat soils
While the rules on the face of it for some don’t look too onerous, the very existence of this ‘designation’ under GAEC 2 draws a line in the sand.
12 February 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: suckler row - ICBF and breeds collide
The move to allow the breed societies a time allocation to vent their frustrations in person this Friday at the stakeholder forum is a positive one.
12 February 2025 Viewpoints