• This week a new report declared that glyphosate does not pose a cancer risk, but the fight to get the glyphosate licence renewed is not necessarily over.
  • According to the EU Commission, some 43,968 EU dairy farmers achieved a total production reduction of 851,700t of milk in the first period of the €150m milk reduction scheme.
  • The draft climate change mitigation plan published by the Government identifies protected urea and the continuation of existing agri-environmental programmes as agriculture’s main contributions.
  • This week there are on-farm jobs in the dairy industry, a vet position in Cork and a Glanbia branch manager.
  • And Kevin O’Malley, the influential and highly respected US ambassador to Ireland who has served in the post since 2014, this week joined the board of Greencore.

    • Photo of the day courtesy of the Irish Farmers Journal picture desk

    Curious dairy cows grazing near Tennypark, Co Kilkenny. \ Ramona Farrelly