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Home Farm: dry weather drives progress
Matt Dempsey
The beans are in a full six weeks earlier than last year and there is now nothing left to sow.
26 March 2025 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: ownership of breeding rights - a basic principle
We have deliberately built in ICBF a genetics-based organisation, where the data generated by farmers is owned by farmers.
19 March 2025 Viewpoints
Home Farm: Spring work underway
As I write, we are sowing the beans. I was interested to see that our delivery came from Denmark.
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Dempsey at Large: The United States - a complex ally
Last week the cattlemen in the United States called again for a fundamental reappraisal of the place of imports of beef from Brazil on the US market.
19 March 2025 Viewpoints
Home Farm: Lime levels being counted
We don’t use that much lime, but it’s noticeable that even on just one farm that pH levels vary from one field with a pH of over 7.5 while a small grass paddock was analysed at 5.5.
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: Regulation must ensure technologies succeed
A price has been paid and the reputation and prospects of a technology with real promise has been damaged.
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: remembering Juliet Greene
Juliet's late husband Juan Greene was the NFA' s first President and was the necessary driving force in building a national organisation that could represent all Irish farmers.
5 March 2025 Viewpoints
Home Farm: all systems go
The first priority was to get the Roundup on the beans ground – it badly needs cleaning up before sowing.
5 March 2025 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: Beef - a different protein
The consumer perception of grass-based food is hugely positive as we can see from the premium earned by Kerrygold butter.
26 February 2025 Viewpoints
Home Farm: Spring plans delayed
The beans are going into fields that had a terrible crop of winter barley, a bad crop of winter wheat and a reasonable crop of late sown spring barley.
26 February 2025 Viewpoints
Home Farm: value in genotyping animals accurately
I was acutely aware there were huge gaps in performance and profitability between the best performing, average and the worst animals as they left after roughly a year on the place.
19 February 2025 Viewpoints
Dempsey at Large: slurry storage nonsense
If we needed an example of new needless bureaucracy causing frustration, expense and potential environmental damage, we have it in this case.
19 February 2025 Viewpoints