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Home Farm: changed routine in a changed early winter
Matt Dempsey
The crops are a glorious verdant green, though the latest sown crop, the gluten free oats is slower to emerge than I expected given the mild conditions.
6 November 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: IFA's farming and food event
Farming’s case was well made with a national spotlight focused on the industry.
30 October 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: focus on cattle
We now have about one third of our cattle in the sheds, with the rest still outside finishing off aftergrass and some paddocks with good covers.
Dempsey at Large: learnings from Castledockrell
Castledockrell – the area demonstrates that farming is capable of being carried out with minimal effect on the overall environment.
30 October 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: Soil – the basic resource
Johnstown Castle - The 1,000 acre estate was given as a gift to the Irish State by the Lacken family in the mid 1940s.
23 October 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: Sowing the last of the autumn crops
While this autumn has been a huge improvement in being able to get crops established, it had been an expensive summer.
23 October 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: beans harvested but badgers noticed
With all the wheat, barley and oilseed rape safely sown, there is only the oats left.
16 October 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: Irish beef transparency
It seems extraordinary that State grants for plant upgrading and marketing can be given with no public accountability on how the profits arising from how the extra profits are spent.
16 October 2024 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: budget - a watershed
The second key announcement was the €30m to be given as a top-up to tillage farmers on crops planted for the 2024 (this year's) harvest.
9 October 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: the hardiness of our dairy beef cattle
I explained the symptoms, to be told that there was a vet in the area and within half an hour, he was in the field.
9 October 2024 Viewpoints
The Home Farm: farm audit
The standout feature of the sampling is how difficult it is to get phosphate levels up on a tillage system.
2 October 2024 Viewpoints
Ireland, more like Luxembourg than France
With a Commissioner from that country, we should find a much more understanding attitude to Ireland.
2 October 2024 Viewpoints