• Glanbia has launched a new five-year fixed milk price contract.
  • The UK wants to stay in a customs union with the EU at least for a transition period after leaving, but the IFA thinks British demands attached to this will inevitably lead to a hard Brexit.
  • Beef factories have been applying further pressure on beef prices.
  • There was a marginal decline in dairy commodity prices at today’s GDT sale.
  • The harvest is good in France, the EU’s largest grain producer.

    • Photo of the day

    Courtesy of the Irish Farmers Journal picture desk, here is our photo of the day:

    Auctioneer’s son, six-year-old James Collins from Keady, getting in some work experience from his dad at Markethill Mart.