• The European Parliament’s agriculture committee has adopted new rules, on a number of issues including; active farmers, young farmer top-ups, producer organisations and greening. The changes aredue to come into effect next year.
  • A status yellow warning remains in place for Munster and Leinster and has led to road closures and flooding across eastern counties.
  • There will be a second leaflet drop in the ongoing search for Stephen Cullinan, son of Tipperary north IFA chair and pig farmer Tim Cullinan, on Thursday.
  • The Irish butter Kerrygold, is set to return to shelves in Wisconsin after an archaic law saw its removal earlier in the year.
  • New laws are to come into effect this week on the labelling of free-range eggs should hens have restricted access to open-air runs as a result of influenza outbreaks.
  • Photo of the day

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

    A square bale of hay, a sight you don’t see too often nowadays! John O’Halloran takes hay to his Connemara ponies, in Claddaghduff, Connemara, Co Galway. \ David Ruffles