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Dempsey at Large: Variable incomes
Matt Dempsey
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.
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.
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
Dempsey at Large: Baileys remains one of the most successful drinks in the world
The use of Irish cream was mandatory from the beginning, and that policy still continues.
4 December 2024 Viewpoints
Home farm: Machinery safeguards
A lesson learned - cheap bolt that saved us from real far more expensive trouble.
4 December 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: The forestry conundrum
Part of farmers reluctance to consider the forestry route has been that the demand for land is now coming from all kinds of new areas.
27 November 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: Quality Assurance inspection time
I had looked at getting vermin-proof roller doors but the cost was significant, the gain marginal and the inconvenience and the exposure to possible breakage through machinery damage was real.
27 November 2024 Viewpoints
Regulations, clover and looming problems
Matt Dempsey reports on this year’s Nuffield Ireland conference, which focused on shaping the future of Irish agriculture.
20 November 2024 News
Home Farm: options for supplementing cattle rations
If we cannot get good by-products at a competitive price, then we will unwillingly replace them with imported product which does nobody any good.
20 November 2024 Viewpoints