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Editorial: Looking into 2025 – TB change needed
Jack Kennedy
We are spending €170m on the island trying to eradicate TB, on top of lost output and further on farm cost while the numbers are going the wrong way.
Editorial: Looking into 2025 – TB change needed
Dempsey at Large: Oxford Farming Conference report
15 January 2025 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: Oxford Farming Conference report
His address was alarmingly short on specifics, and dealt almost entirely in generalisations.
Home Farm: crops fair well in cold spell
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.
Colm McCarthy: Government has become an insurer of last resort
The Irish State has got into the habit of retrospectively assuming compensation risks, directly financed by the Exchequer.
15 January 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: Dairygold price row
Linking a contractual milk supply arrangement and subsequently tying in a trading requirement with an annual milk price top-up makes for lazy management.
15 January 2025 Viewpoints
Jack Kennedy: New government imminent
We’ll set out what’s in the programme for government from a farming perspective and talk to the new political leaders on what they want to prioritise.
15 January 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: wind farm judgment
It’s a very real reminder to everyone that legally binding climate targets are not going away, no matter who is in government.
15 January 2025 Viewpoints
Export market change - real and present
For value growth to continue, clearly Irish grain needs to be the basis for Irish drinks.
8 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
Editorial: Stop the clock and reflect
How quickly we forget some of the detail and indeed some of the outcomes from these so-called scandals.
8 January 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: Renewable ‘set price’ disappoints
It seems, on the face of it, that this tariff rate is below expectations and not going to give the injection or boost to farmers that they need to take on the project risks.
8 January 2025 Viewpoints