• The working group reviewing the Department of Agriculture’s general laboratory services has backed closing the Kilkenny, Limerick and Sligo vet labs.
  • Fianna Fáil is to meet with the Irish Farmers Association to discuss the party's controversial amendment to the proposed Heritage Bill next Tuesday.
  • Brazilian meat exports have plummeted from $60m per day to just $74,000 in the wake of the Operation ''Weak Flesh'' meat scandal.

  • GLAS payments should be issued to more than 200 farmers this week, officials from the Department of Agriculture have said.
  • And Bord Bia is set to revise the terms and conditions of its poultry products quality assurance scheme in the coming months.

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

    Lambs grazing near Loughcrew, Co Meath. \ Ramona Farrelly