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Home Farm: watching input prices

For cereals I have always preferred CAN over the cheaper per unit priced urea.

VIEWPOINTS 21 January 2026

Home Farm: watching input prices

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Dempsey at Large: what trends in birth figures tell us

Dempsey at Large: what trends in birth figures tell us

VIEWPOINTS 21 January 2026

Colm McCarthy: economic is trong, but warning light flashes

Colm McCarthy: economic is trong, but warning light flashes

VIEWPOINTS 21 January 2026

Hard to get enthused by new TB project

Hard to get enthused by new TB project

Hard to get enthused by new TB project

NORTHERN IRELAND 21 January 2026

Farmers' Mercosur fears misunderstood

Farmers' Mercosur fears misunderstood

Farmers' Mercosur fears misunderstood

NEWS 18 January 2026

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Farmers answer Fitzmaurice’s protest call over Mercosur deal

Farmers answer Fitzmaurice’s protest call over Mercosur deal

Irish farming, together standing tall in Athlone, as 20,000 farmers and contractors made for a massive show of strength and unified opposition to Mercosur.

OPINION 9 January 2026

Colm McCarthy: farmers will be blamed for Mercosur protest

Colm McCarthy: farmers will be blamed for Mercosur protest

Saturday’s events in Athlone were reported in both print and broadcast media as a ‘farmer protest’.

VIEWPOINTS 9 January 2026

Home Farm: slurry season opens

Home Farm: slurry season opens

The amount of money involved to stock up with cattle for beef is so large and the risk of loss so real that it seems a no-brainer that there should be some form of forward price guarantee on offer.

VIEWPOINTS 9 January 2026

Dempsey at Large: Oxford Farming Conference report

Dempsey at Large: Oxford Farming Conference report

Over the last 25 years, one of the clearest trends has been the increase in agricultural land prices in parts of the world with access to increasingly open food markets.

VIEWPOINTS 9 January 2026

Dawn moves to put its stamp on Alliance

Dawn moves to put its stamp on Alliance

The move by Dawn Meats to install Niall Browne as acting CEO in alliance indicates that no stone is being left unturned to make the joint venture a success.

NEWS 9 January 2026

Opinion: Mercosur has become a symbol of broken trust

Opinion: Mercosur has become a symbol of broken trust

The trade deal goes ahead and won't shut down farming, but calling it bad faith to oppose Mercosur is a misunderstanding of the failing relationship between food producers and the European Commission.

OPINION 9 January 2026

Exceptional export performance masks drop in production

Exceptional export performance masks drop in production

A record value for Irish food and drink exports doesn't tell the full story about 2025.

NEWS 9 January 2026

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