Good week for…

  • Dairy farmers as they flex their farms’ milk muscles, being on track to produce an extra billion litres of milk over 2015.
  • Suckler and sheep farmers as the Irish Farmers Journal unveils a new demonstration farm in Tullamore.
  • New entrant suckler farmers, as the Department of Agriculture confirms those who started suckler farming in the last two years can enter the new Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP).
  • Kerry farmer Dermot Donovan, whose 24 stolen hoggets trekked for four days to get home.
  • Young farmers, as Macra Na Feirme’s land mobility scheme has seen 25,000ac signed up to farmer deals.

    • Bad week for…

  • BVD eradication, as it was revealed that 37 farmers are stubbornly holding on to PI calves born in 2016.

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