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Export market change - real and present
Jack Kennedy
For value growth to continue, clearly Irish grain needs to be the basis for Irish drinks.
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.
Farm Tech Talk: new-year beef prices, lamb shortage and Kentucky whiskey
New-year beef prices, a shortage of lamb on the horizon and lessons from Kentucky whiskey for the Irish are all on the agenda this week.
3 January 2025 Podcast
Editorial: need for positive thinking for investing in 2025
The EU powerhouses of Germany and France need financial stimulation and are in a very different fiscal economic situation to Ireland at the moment.
1 January 2025 Viewpoints
Editorial: communicating to non-farmers essential
A more diverse population means it is more challenging to communicate with people about farm tasks.
1 January 2025 Viewpoints
Farm Tech Talk: ups and downs of farming in 2024
This week, Jack Kennedy and the team review the big stories of farming in 2024.
27 December 2024 News
Editorial: Animal Health Ireland – time for a reset?
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.
23 December 2024 Viewpoints
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
Farm Tech Talk: Mercosur, sheep body condition scores and the Kerry deal
This week, Jack Kennedy and the team talk about the Mercosur deal, sheep prices, the Kerry deal and Adam chats to Grassland AGRO’s Clodagh Bolger about the importance of soil sampling.
20 December 2024 News